@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: the oxygen in the world’s […]
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WFS News: Plate Tectonics new evidences…
April 30th, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: ‘Giant lion’ fossil found in Kenya museum drawer
April 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Of all the places you could imagine discovering a giant meat-eating mammal, a drawer is probably not one. But a pair of researchers from Ohio University have done just that. Matthew Borths was studying fossils at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya when he decided to have a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Giant lion fossil, Kenya museum, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil site shows signs of meteor impact
March 30th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Sixty-six million years ago, a giant meteor slammed into Earth off the coast of modern-day Mexico. Firestorms incinerated the landscape for miles around. Even creatures thousands of miles away were doomed on that fateful day, if not by fire and brimstone, then by mega-earthquakes and waves of unimaginable size. Now, scientists […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossil site .signs, meteor impact, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Surprise beach find adds missing piece to fossil record
March 19th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A beach can be a place of discovery. Broken shells, whimsical weathered bits of wood, flotsam from a foreign corner of the globe. You never know what treasure you might find. In July of 2017, the Reising family of Seward, Alaska was enjoying a picnic lunch on a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Plant leaf tooth feature extraction
February 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Plant leaf tooth feature extraction Citation: Wang H, Tian D, Li C, Tian Y, Zhou H (2019) Plant leaf tooth feature extraction. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0204714. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204714 Editor: Yi Jiang, Georgia State University, UNITED STATES Leaf tooth can indicate several systematically informative features and is extremely useful for circumscribing fossil […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: extraction, Plant leaf, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tooth feature, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tiny tyrannosaur fossil discovery changes the dinosaur timeline
February 21st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t always the king of the dinosaurs. Before they became towering predators, tyrannosaurs started out much smaller, and a newly discovered fossil is helping fill the gap between those two extremes. The fossil findings are detailed in a study published Thursday in Communications Biology. The dinosaur fossil […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaur timeline, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tiny, Tyrannosaur, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: 2.1-Billion-Year-Old Fossil May Be Evidence of Earliest Moving Life-Form
February 12th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 2.1 billion years ago, a blob-like creature inched along on an early Earth. As the organism moved, it carved out tunnels, which may be the earliest evidence of a moving critter on the planet. Until this discovery, the earliest evidence of motility — that is, an organism’s […]
WFS News: Ancient Passerines Fossils reveals Oldest Finch-Beaked Birds
February 11th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 52-million-year fossil of a “perching bird” has been found in Wyoming with its feathers still attached, a discovery that “no one’s ever seen before.” Also known as passerines, the perching bird was discovered in Fossil Lake, WY. Passerines are well-known for eating seeds, as most modern-day birds do and […]
WFS News: kangaroo fossil reveals origin of marsupial hop
February 6th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Artistic reconstruction showing the balbarid kangaroo relative Nambaroo gillespieae (top left) ( Peter […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: kangaroo fossil, marsupial hop, Origin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Detection of lost calamus challenges identity of isolated Archaeopteryx feather
February 5th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Abstract Thomas G. Kaye, Michael Pittman, Gerald Mayr, Daniela Schwarz & Xing Xu Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 1182 (2019) In 1862, a fossil feather from the Solnhofen quarries was described as the holotype of the iconic Archaeopteryx lithographica. The isolated feather’s identification has been problematic, and the fossil was considered either a […]
