@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 […]
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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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No Comments »WFS News: The Earth was a “water world” of submerged continents
March 4th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev WFS News: And that could have major implications on the origin of life. “An early Earth without emergent continents may have resembled a ‘water world,’ providing an important environmental constraint on the origin and evolution of life on Earth as well as its possible existence elsewhere,” geologists Benjamin […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, submerged continents, The Earth, water world, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: P. antiquus,The oldest green seaweed
March 2nd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A microscopic fossil discovered by Virginia Tech researchers may be key to understanding how modern plants evolved into their current form. At around 1 billion years old, the seaweed microfossil — a type of algae known as Proterocladus antiquus — is the oldest green seaweed known to man. The […]
Posted in General Tags: green seaweed, P. antiquus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, The oldest, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Mesophthirus engeli,A newly discovered ancient insect species
February 21st, 2020 Riffin Fossils in amber push the origin of feather-feeding insects back over 50 million years
Posted in General Tags: Mesophthirus engeli, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Paleoclimate Proxies
February 18th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Every year, particles eroding from the continents are transported to the oceans by the wind as dust and by rivers as sands and gravels. Once they get to the ocean, they mix with billions of tons of dead plankton shells, sink, and settle on the seafloor. There, […]
Posted in General Tags: Paleoclimate Proxies, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Thalattosaur. sea monster with needle-sharp snout
February 7th, 2020 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An articulated Late Triassic (Norian) thalattosauroid from Alaska and ecomorphology and extinction of Thalattosauria An iguana-like creature with a needle-sharp snout has been confirmed from a fossilized skeleton as a species of the marine reptile thalattosaur previously unknown to science that roamed the coast of what is now […]
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February 3rd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Baby pterosaurs — flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs — were probably able to spread their leathery wings and fly shortly after emerging from their eggs, scientists reported in a new study. Preserved eggs and embryos from Argentina and China suggested that pterosaur babies, or “flaplings,” according to the researchers, had skeletons […]
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