@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. […]
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WFS News: World’s oldest lizard wins fossil fight
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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 […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, INDIA, long-necked dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tharosaurus indicus, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
October 23rd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct species for the first time. The […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Extinct, Historical RNA, Riffin Russel T Sajeev, Tasmanian tiger., WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News:Plate tectonic cross-roads: Reconstructing the Panthalassa-Neotethys Junction Region from Philippine Sea Plate and Australasian oceans and orogens.
October 17th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in Utrecht had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates […]
WFS News:125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers Reveal Traces of Ancient Proteins
October 6th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Previous studies suggested that ancient feathers had a different composition to the feathers of birds today. The new research, however, reveals […]
Posted in General Tags: 125-Million, Ancient Proteins, Athira, Dinosaur Feathers, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Traces, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New Research Sheds Light on How Dinosaurs Became Giants
September 27th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Bone cavities called air sacs emerged in the precursors of long-necked dinosaurs around 225 million years ago, according to the analysis of a specimen found in Rio Grande do Sul state, South Brazil. The missing link has just been found, bridging the gap between the […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, dinosaurs, Giants, New Research, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Long-Standing Question Answered – How Mass Extinction Paved the Way for Oysters and Clams
September 26th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev One of the biggest crises in Earth’s history, marked by a significant shift in shellfish, saw the widespread replacement of brachiopods, often referred to as ‘lamp shells’, with bivalve species such as oysters and clams. This happened as a result of the devastating end-Permian mass extinction, which effectively […]
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