@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. New York: Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great […]
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WFS News:Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees
March 8th, 2022 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Conca Dellà Museum (MCD), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) have described the new species of titanosaur dinosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei from the remains excavated at the Orcau-1 […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Fruits of Euphorbiaceae from the Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India.
February 21st, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which likely […]
WFS News: A giant millipede 326 million years old found
December 23rd, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists say they have discovered the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede on a beach in Northumberland, totally by chance. The millipede, known as Arthropleura, is thought to have been more than 2.5m (8ft) long. It would have weighed about 50kg (eight stone). The fossil segment was first […]
WFS News: Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents
July 16th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents Citation: Wu S, Wu W, Zhang F, Ye J, Ni X, Sun J, et al. (2012) Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046445 Editor: Alistair Robert Evans, Monash University, Australia The timing […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Rodents, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Shingopana, New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaur
July 11th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great Rift Valley […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Shingopana, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids
April 29th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan’s southern islands. The fossilized discovery yields new information about hadrosaur migration, suggesting that the herbivors migrated from Asia to North America instead of vice versa. […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: How ancient fish may have prepared for life on land?
November 27th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The international study of the prehistoric ‘relic’ tetrapods, including salamander and lobe-finned lungfish and coelacanths, adds another perspective to the evolution of other four-legged land animals, including related animals such as frogs and reptiles which live in both terrestrial and aqueous environments. Using micro-CT and MRI scans to […]
WFS News: Baby dinosaurs were ‘little adults’
November 13th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Long neck, small head and a live weight of several tons — with this description you could have tracked down the Plateosaurus in Central Europe about 220 million years ago. Paleontologists at the University of Bonn (Germany) have now described for the first time an almost complete skeleton […]
WFS News: reptiles persisted in Jurassic Africa even as volcanism ruined their habitat?
September 11th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Karoo igneous rocks represent one of the largest continental flood basalt events (by volume) on Earth, and are not normally associated with fossils remains. However, these Pliensbachian–Toarcian lava flows contain sandstone interbeds that are particularly common in the lower part of the volcanic succession and are occasionally […]
