Paleontologists say a dinosaur from 79 million years ago, known as Wendiceratops pinhornensis, could help them hook into the mysteries of how horned dinosaurs evolved. The species’ somewhat whimsical name is inspired by the place where its fossilized bones were found (the Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve in Alberta) and the person who found them (Canadian […]
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Great Karoo rocks reveals mass extinction
July 8th, 2015 
Riffin An international team led by researchers from the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has obtained an age from rocks of the Great Karoo that shed light on the timing of a mass extinction event that occurred around 260 million years ago. This led to the disappearance of a diverse […]
Ground-based atomic clocks for monitoring volcanoes
July 5th, 2015 Riffin An international team led by scientists from the University of Zurich finds that high-precision atomic clocks can be used to monitoring volcanoes and potentially improve predictions of future eruptions. In addition, a ground-based network of atomic clocks could monitor the reaction of Earth’s crust to solid Earth tides. Atomic clocks measure time with unbelievable accuracy. […]
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No Comments »A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard from North America
July 3rd, 2015 Riffin A new fossil showing affinities with extant Laemanctus offers the first clear evidence for a casquehead lizard (Corytophanidae) from the Eocene of North America. Along with Geiseltaliellus from roughly coeval rocks in central Europe, the new find further documents the tropical fauna present during greenhouse conditions in the northern mid-latitudes approximately 50 million years ago […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Casquehead Lizard, Eocene, North America, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Helium leakage from Earth’s mantle ?
June 30th, 2015 Riffin UC Santa Barbara geologist Jim Boles has found evidence of helium leakage from Earth’s mantle along a 30-mile stretch of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin. Using samples of casing gas from two dozen oil wells ranging from LA’s Westside to Newport Beach in Orange County, Boles discovered that more than one-third […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Earth's mantle, Helium leakage, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Sefapanosaurus — SA’s new Sesotho dinosaur.
June 26th, 2015 Riffin South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200-million-year-old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word “sefapano.” The researchers from South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), and from the Argentinian Museo de La Plata and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio made […]
Dinosaur tracks reconstructed
June 24th, 2015 Riffin Twelve years ago, footprints of carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered and excavated in a quarry near Goslar. Paleontologists from the University of Bonn, working with Dinosaur Park Münchehagen and the State Museum of Hanover, have now created a three-dimensional digital model based on photographs of the excavation. The reconstruction of the discovery site suggests that carnivorous […]
First sensor of Earth’s magnetic field in an animal
June 21st, 2015 Riffin A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of Earth’s magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny worm a big clue to a long-held mystery about how animals’ internal compasses work. Animals as diverse as migrating geese, sea turtles and […]
When continents connected ?
June 14th, 2015 Riffin A long-standing fact widely accepted among the scientific community has been recently refuted, which now has major implications on our understanding of how Earth has evolved.Until recently, most geologists had determined the land connecting North and South America, the Isthmus of Panama, had formed 3.5 million years ago. But new data shows that this geological […]
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June 13th, 2015 Riffin Scientists have found remnants that have some similarities to red blood cells and collagen fibres in fragments of dinosaur fossils. The team from Imperial College London have detected what look like soft tissue remnants in the fragments of 75 million year old dinosaur fossils even though the fossils are poorly preserved. Scientists have previously only […]
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