Ten million years ago, a green and black snake lay coiled in the Spanish undergrowth. Once, paleontologists would have been limited to the knowledge they could glean from its colorless fossil remains, but now they know what the snake looked like and can guess how it acted. Researchers reporting on March 31 in Current Biology […]
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Aquilonifer spinosus, an arthropod that lived about 430 million years
April 5th, 2016 
Riffin Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in capsules tethered to the parent’s body like tiny, swirling kites. They’re naming it after “The Kite Runner,” the 2003 bestselling novel. The miniscule creature, Aquilonifer spinosus, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago. It grew to less than half an inch […]
Evolution of some of the largest dinosaurs explained
March 31st, 2016 Riffin Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society,WFS Scientists from the University of Liverpool have developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs to examine the evolution of their body shape. Sauropod dinosaurs include the largest land animals to have ever lived. Some of the more well-known sauropods include Diplodocus, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus. They are […]
Synemporion keana : An Extinct Bat
March 27th, 2016 Riffin The Hawaiian Islands have long been thought to support just one endemic land mammal in the archipelago’s brief geologic history, the Hawaiian hoary bat. But new fossil evidence indicates that a second, very different species of bat lived alongside the hoary bat for thousands of years before going extinct shortly after humans arrived on the […]
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No Comments »Seaweed fossils : Chinggiskhaania bifurcata
March 23rd, 2016 Riffin Honing in on when life on Earth evolved from single-celled to multicellular organisms is no easy task. Organisms that old lacked many distinguishing characteristics of modern life forms, making their fossils exceptionally rare. But University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee paleontologist Stephen Dornbos and his research partners have discovered new clues in the quest. The team found fossils […]
How Mount Kosciuszko came to exist
March 19th, 2016 Riffin Geologists from the University of Sydney and the California Institute of Technology have solved the mystery of how Australia’s highest mountain — Mount Kosciuszko — and surrounding Alps came to exist. Most of the world’s mountain belts are the result of two continents colliding (e.g. the Himalayas) or volcanism. The mountains of Australia’s Eastern highlands […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mount Kosciuszko, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tullimonstrum gregarium: Solving the mystery of the Tully Monster
March 17th, 2016 Riffin The Tully Monster, an oddly configured sea creature with teeth at the end of a narrow, trunk-like extension of its head and eyes that perch on either side of a long, rigid bar, has finally been identified. A Yale-led team of paleontologists has determined that the 300-million-year-old animal — which grew to only a foot […]
How Tyrannosaurus rex became top predator
March 15th, 2016 Riffin The fossilized remains of a new horse-sized dinosaur reveal how Tyrannosaurus rex and its close relatives became top predators, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Paleontologists have long known from the fossil record that the family of dinosaurs at the center of the study–tyrannosaurs–transitioned from small-bodied […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, top predator, Tyrannosaurus rex, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil of oldest pine tree discovered
March 11th, 2016 Riffin Scientists have discovered the oldest-know fossil of a pine tree.The charred pine twigs date back 140 million years to a time when fires raged across large tracts of land.Pine trees now dominate the forests of the Northern Hemisphere. The research suggests the tree’s evolution was shaped in the fiery landscape of the Cretaceous, where oxygen […]
Electrokoenenia yaksha : The minute fossilized microwhip scorpion
March 10th, 2016 Riffin It’s smaller than a grain of rice, yellowish, trapped in amber and lived 100 million years ago alongside dinosaurs. Meet Electrokoenenia yaksha, a newly described type of microwhip scorpion, or palpigrade, from Myanmar, whose minute fossilised remains have been found, trapped in Burmese amber. It has been described by an international team led by Michael […]
