Call it the Jimmy Durante of dinosaurs — a newly discovered hadrosaur with a truly distinctive nasal profile. The new dinosaur, named Rhinorex condrupus by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and Brigham Young University, lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Rhinorex, which translates roughly […]
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Rhinorex condrupus :Hadrosaur with huge nose discovered
September 19th, 2014 
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September 17th, 2014 Riffin A recent study of the global carbon cycle offers a new perspective of Earth’s climate records through time. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggest that one of the current methods for interpreting ancient changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans may […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: climate events, Earth's history, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Rukwatitan bisepultus : new species of titanosaurian
September 15th, 2014 Riffin Ohio University paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania. Although many fossils of titanosaurians have been discovered around the globe, especially in South America, few have been recovered from the continent of Africa. The new species, […]
Scientists report first semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus: Massive predator was more than 9 feet longer than largest T. rex
September 13th, 2014 Riffin Scientists are unveiling what appears to be the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator reveal it adapted to life in the water some 95 million years ago, providing the most compelling evidence to date of a dinosaur able to live and hunt in an aquatic environment. The fossils […]
Mantle plumes crack continents
September 9th, 2014 Riffin In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of Earth’s core and the lower mantle to just below Earth’s crust hundreds of kilometres above. Halted by the resistance of the hard crust and lithospheric mantle, the flow of material becomes wider, taking on a mushroom-like shape. Specialists […]
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September 6th, 2014 Riffin Methods have been developed to try to identify and correct for bias in the fossil record but new research from the Universities of Bristol and Bath, suggests many of these correction methods may actually be misleading. The study, led by Dr Alex Dunhill, formerly at the Universities of Bristol and Bath and now at the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossil record, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dreadnoughtus: Gigantic complete sauropod
September 5th, 2014 Riffin Scientists have discovered and described a new supermassive dinosaur species with the most complete skeleton ever found of its type. At 85 feet (26 m) long and weighing about 65 tons (59,300 kg) in life, Dreadnoughtus schrani is the largest land animal for which a body mass can be accurately calculated. Its skeleton is exceptionally […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dreadnoughtus, Gigantic sauropod, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Gallomesovelia grioti: Well Preserved Fossil Insect
September 3rd, 2014 Riffin In Bavaria, the Tithonian Konservat-Lagerstätte of lithographic limestone is well known as a result of numerous discoveries of emblematic fossils from that area (for example, Archaeopteryx). Now, for the first time, researchers have found fossil insects in the French equivalent of these outcrops — discoveries which include a new species representing the oldest known water […]
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August 29th, 2014 Riffin The tectonic plate that dominates the Pacific “Ring of Fire” is not as rigid as most assume, and it’s getting less fiery. according to researchers at Rice University and the University of Nevada. Rice geophysicist Richard Gordon and Corné Kreemer, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, have determined that cooling of the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Ring Of Fire, Russel T Sajeev, Tectonic Plate, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Thylacares brandonesis : carnivorous crustacean 435 MYA
August 23rd, 2014 Riffin A new species of carnivorous crustacean has been identified, which roamed the seas 435 million years ago, grasping its prey with spiny limbs before devouring it. The fossil is described and details of its lifestyle are published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The fossils were discovered near Waukesha, Wisconsin, with the new […]
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