@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles, including how snakes got their bite and lost their legs. The fossil discoveries published in Science Advances have revealed they possessed hind legs during the first 70 million years of their evolution. […]
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WFS News: Najash,Fossil of an ancient legged snake
December 8th, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: fossil hunter finds prehistoric sea creature inside ‘golden snitch’
November 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev fossil hunter finds prehistoric sea creature inside ‘golden snitch’ Quidditch ball-shaped fossils are just some of the many discoveries made by amateur archaeologist Aaron Smith. The medical student has found several fossils that date back to the Jurassic period on the beaches of Whitby in Yorkshire. Perhaps […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new carcharodontosaurian theropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand
October 15th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new carcharodontosaurian theropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand Fossils discovered in Thailand represent a new genus and species of predatory dinosaur, according to a study released October 9, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Duangsuda Chokchaloemwong of Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Thailand and colleagues. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Carcharodontosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The anatomy of a crushing bite: The specialised cranial mechanics of a giant extinct kangaroo.
October 6th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An in-depth analysis of the skull biomechanics of a giant extinct kangaroo indicates that the animal had a capacity for high-performance crushing of foods, suggesting feeding behaviors more similar to a giant panda than modern-day kangaroo. The new findings, published in PLOS ONE, support the hypothesis that some short-faced […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Spatial Bias in the Marine Fossil Record
September 1st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Spatial Bias in the Marine Fossil Record Citation: Vilhena DA, Smith AB (2013) Spatial Bias in the Marine Fossil Record. PLoS ONE 8(10): e74470. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074470 Editor: Richard J. Butler, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Inference of past and present global biodiversity requires enough global data to distinguish biological pattern […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: C. waiparensis, A New penguin species fossil from the Paleocene of New Zealand
August 14th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The discovery of Crossvallia waiparensis, a monster penguin from the Paleocene Epoch (between 66 and 56 million years ago), adds to the list of gigantic, but extinct, New Zealand fauna. These include the world’s largest parrot, a giant eagle, giant burrowing bat, the moa and other giant penguins. C. […]
WFS News: Cretaceous lizard In Microraptor’s abdomen
July 31st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 120 million years ago, a small dinosaur gulped down a lizard, swallowing the reptile whole. The wee lizard’s story might have ended there, but the dinosaur died soon after and was preserved as a fossil. Millions of years later, paleontologists discovered the scaly meal in the dinosaur’s […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New light on cichlid evolution in Africa
July 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A collaborative research project carried out under the auspices of the GeoBio-Center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has developed an integrative approach to the classification of fossil cichlids, and identified the oldest known member of the Tribe Oreochromini. Holotype of †Oreochromimos kabchorensis gen. et sp. nov., OCO-2c-1a, b(1). (a1) […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Africa, cichlid evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Elektorornis chenguangi sp. : Bird with unusually long toes found fossilized in amber
July 16th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Meet the ancient bird that had toes longer than its lower legs. Researchers have discovered a bird foot from 99 million years ago preserved in amber that had a hyper-elongated third toe. The study, published in the journal Current Biology on July 11, suggests that this bird might have […]
WFS News: The largest recorded dinosaur foot ever recorded came from a brachiosaur
June 9th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Measuring almost a metre wide, the largest recorded dinosaur foot ever recorded came from a brachiosaur, palaeontologists have revealed. One of the biggest creatures ever to walk the earth, The 150 million-year-old fossil was discovered in Wyoming, in 1998. But a new study has confirmed the species – a type of sauropod – roamed […]
