Analysis of ancient DNA of a mysterious extinct monkey named Xenothrix — which displays bizarre body characteristics very different to any living monkey — has revealed that it was in fact most closely related to South America’s titi monkeys (Callicebinae). Having made their way overwater to Jamaica, probably on floating vegetation, their bones reveal they […]
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Ancient DNA reveals history of extinct Caribbean monkey
November 21st, 2018 
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No Comments »Demise of Indus Valley civilization could have been a result of climate change.
November 19th, 2018 Riffin More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, where they built sophisticated cities, invented sewage systems that predated ancient Rome’s, and engaged in long-distance trade with settlements in Mesopotamia. Yet by 1800 BCE, this advanced culture had abandoned their cities, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: change, civilization, climate, harappa, Indus, Riffin T Sajeev, river, Russel T Sajeev, valley, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »evolution of animal ecosystem on islands
November 18th, 2018 Riffin Islands have been vital laboratories for advancing evolutionary theory since the pioneering work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century. Now, a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE from an international team of investigators describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animals, ecosystem, Eocene, Evolution, islands, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions
November 17th, 2018 Riffin During the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago, birds belonging to hundreds of different species flitted around the dinosaurs and through the forests as abundantly as they flit about our woods and fields today. But after the cataclysm that wiped out most of the dinosaurs, only one group of birds remained: the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: avians, Bird, Dinosaur, rifiin t sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, theropod, WFS, wishbone, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »New species of ‘missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds identified
October 27th, 2018 Riffin Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an international team of scientists, researchers at The University of Manchester have identified a new species of Archaeopteryx that is closer to modern birds in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Archaeopteryx, birds, Dinosaur, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »WFS News: Ancient flesh-eating fish look like piranha
October 23rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a piranha-like species that they say is the earliest known example of a flesh-eating fish.This bony creature, found in South Germany, lived about 150 million years ago and had the distinctive sharp teeth of modern-day piranhas.These Jurassic marauders used their razor […]
WFS News: Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel
October 13th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The oldest flying squirrel fossil ever found has unearthed new insight on the origin and evolution of these airborne animals. Writing in the open-access journal eLife, researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) in Barcelona, Spain, described the 11.6-million-year-old fossil, which was discovered in Can Mata […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: flying squirrel, fossil, Oldest skeleton, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa
October 8th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four metres […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Earliest Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, South Africa, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Description of climate-envelope models
October 7th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Climate-envelope models attempt to capture the climatic conditions that constrain the potential niche of a species, and use them to predict the probability of occurrence of species in an area. There are many different types of climate-envelope models [1], distinguished among other things by the type of data […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: climate-envelope models, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Plate tectonics may have been active on Earth since its origin
October 5th, 2018 Riffin A new study suggests that plate tectonics — a scientific theory that divides Earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock — could have been active from the planet’s very beginning. The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years. […]
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