@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 […]
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WFS News: The Earth was a “water world” of submerged continents
March 4th, 2020 
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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 […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Thalattosaur, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Baby Pterosaurs Could Fly
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 […]
Posted in General Tags: Baby Pterosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: fin-to-limb transition from fossilised fish
January 26th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution of fins as they began to transition into limbs fit for walking on land. The new study by paleontologists from the University of Chicago, published this week in the Proceedings of the […]
WFS News: 16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite
December 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that many animals face is dispersal — being able to pick up and leave to occupy new lands, find fresh resources and mates, and avoid intraspecies competition in times of overpopulation. For birds, butterflies and other winged […]
WFS News:Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber
December 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber Citation: Heinrichs J, Scheben A, Bechteler J, Lee GE, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Hedenäs L, et al. (2016) Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156301. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156301 Editor: William Oki Wong, Institute […]
Posted in General Tags: Amber, Lejeuneaceae, Pleurocarpous Mosses, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil ‘Death Pit’ Preserves Dino Extinction Event … But Where Are the Dinosaurs?
November 28th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The New Yorker recently described a so-called dinosaur graveyard as holding the remains of an astonishingly diverse trove of dinosaur fossils, including hatchlings; it caused quite a buzz in the media. But even though the site is potentially groundbreaking, the New Yorker article is out of step with […]
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