@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed paleontologists to identify a rare, entirely new species that could unlock mysteries of whale evolution. Researchers this week […]
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WFS News: Scientists discover an ancient whale with a Pokémon face and a predator bite
August 16th, 2025 
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No Comments »WFS News: A new dinosaur species discovered in China didn’t roar, it chirped like a bird
July 23rd, 2025 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev ith each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by the Jurassic Park series. One of the most striking shifts has been in how we envision their appearance. Rather than the tough-skinned reptilian giants depicted on screen, many […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Athira, Pulaosaurus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths discovered in 236-million-year-old poop
June 10th, 2025 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has discovered evidence of scales from lepidopterans in dung samples recovered from a dig site in Talampaya National Park, Argentina. In their paper published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, the […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, moths, Oldest butterflies, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Duonychus tsogtbaatari , a Unique two-clawed dinosaur discovered
May 24th, 2025 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A rare new species of two-clawed dinosaur has been discovered by scientists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, was unique within a group of dinosaurs called Therizinosaurs, which stood on their hind legs and usually had three claws. It was medium-sized, with an estimated […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, two-clawed dinosaur, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: UK’s biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed
January 2nd, 2025 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The UK’s biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor. They reveal the comings and goings of two different types of dinosaurs that are thought to be […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, dinosaur footprint, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, site unearthed, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: World’s oldest lizard wins fossil fight
December 11th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed. The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is at least 205 million years old and the oldest modern-type lizard on record. […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, fossil, oldest lizard, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Rare whitefly fossils found in New Zealand shed light on ancient forest life
December 9th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an extraordinary way. Published in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, a study reveals rare whitefly insect fossils have been found in Miocene age crater lake sediments at […]
Posted in General Tags: ancient forest life, Athira, new zealand, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, whitefly fossils, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Half-a-billion-year-old slug reveals mollusc origins
August 17th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A half-a-billion-year-old spiny slug has shed light on the origins of animals like oysters and octopuses, researchers have said. Scientists, including experts from the University of Oxford, have discovered a new species of mollusc that lived 500 million years ago. The fossil, called Shishania aculeata, […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, mollusc origins, old slug, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News : Ammonites’ fate sealed by meteor strike that wiped out dinosaurs
June 29th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found The marine mollusks with coiled shells, one of paleontology’s great icons, flourished in Earth’s oceans for more than 350 million years until they died out during the same chance event that wiped out the […]
Posted in General Tags: ammonites, Athira, Dinosaur, meteor strike, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tharosaurus indicus, an oldest long-necked dinosaur unearthed in India
November 3rd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of the oldest long-necked dinosaur that inhabited Earth about 167 million years ago have been unearthed in India that reveal the country was a “major centre of dinosaur evolution”, experts said. The discovery unearths some of the oldest plant-eating giant reptiles to have roamed the planet. The dinosaur, named Tharosaurus indicus after India’s Thar desert, walked […]
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