@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its prey, in a fossil dating back almost 200 million years. The fossil was found on the Jurassic coast of southern England in the 19th century and is currently housed within the collections of the […]
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WFS News: Scientists have reconstructed the skulls of some of the world’s oldest known dinosaur embryos in 3D, using synchrotron techniques.
April 19th, 2020 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of scientists led by the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has been able to reconstruct, in the smallest details, the skulls of some of the world’s oldest known dinosaur embryos in 3D, using powerful and non-destructive synchrotron techniques at the ESRF, the European […]
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No Comments »WFS News: ‘Dineobellator notohesperus’ ,dinosaur with nasty gouge mark on claw
April 10th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 70 million years ago, a cousin of Velociraptor got in a brawl with a larger predator that left it with a nasty rib injury. But this dinosaur, a feathered hypercarnivore, lived to tell the tale, as its rib showed signs of healing, a new study finds. The newfound species, dubbed Dineobellator […]
Posted in General Tags: claw, Dineobellator notohesperus, Dinosaur, gouge mark, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Iridescent Bones of a Lost Dinosaur Herd Discovered in an Opal Mine
April 3rd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Gemstones are precious, especially when they come filled with dinosaur bones. Back in the 1980s, a miner unearthed a slew of fossils preserved in opals in an opal mine near Lightning Ridge in Australia. A recent analysis of those opalized fossils revealed that they held the remains of […]
Posted in General Tags: Dinosaur Herd, Iridescent Bones, Opal Mine, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Discovery of the oldest bilaterian from the Ediacaran of South Australia
April 1st, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Discovery of the oldest bilaterian from the Ediacaran of South Australia A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most familiar animals today, including humans. The tiny, wormlike creature, named Ikaria wariootia, is the earliest bilaterian, or organism […]
Posted in General Tags: discovery, oldest bilaterian .Ediacaran, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could ‘rewrite’ ancient events
March 25th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines. “If it’s organic and old — up to 50,000 years — you date it by […]
Posted in General Tags: Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Microbes were living on land as early as 3.22 billion years ago?
March 22nd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The earliest signs of life on a young Earth, around 3.5 billion years ago, have generally come from the ocean in the form of fossilized microbes within ancient rock. Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa—where some of the oldest rocks on Earth are […]
WFS News: A newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.
March 19th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet. Living just before the asteroid strike that wiped out giant dinosaurs, the unique fossil, from about 67 million years ago, gives a glimpse into the dawn of modern birds. Birds are […]
WFS News:Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
March 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland Citation: dePolo PE, Brusatte SL, Challands TJ, Foffa D, Wilkinson M, Clark NDL, et al. (2020) Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle […]
WFS News: Debate on shelf life of DNA vs presence of DNA in fossils
March 8th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 75 million years ago, a nest of plant-eating dinosaurs called Hypacrosaurus stebingeri died in what’s now Montana. Their fossils were found in the 1980s, and now an international team of scientists has presented evidence that the old bones contain traces of genetic material. The paper published in National Science […]
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