@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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in General Tags: dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia
November 23rd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia The Early Cretaceous (?Berriasian-Barremian) Teete vertebrate locality in Western Yakutia, East Siberia, Russia, has produced mammal remains that are attributed to three taxa: Eleutherodontidae indet. cf. Sineleutherus sp. (Haramiyida; an upper molariform tooth), Khorotherium yakutensis gen. et sp. nov. (Tegotheriidae, Docodonta; maxillary fragment […]
Posted in General Tags: Mammals, mid-Mesozoic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ancient four-legged whale that looked like an otter discovered in Peru
November 21st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A four-legged creature that had a tail and webbed feet similar to those found on otters, has been identified as an ancestor of the whale. Fossils unearthed in Peru have led scientists to conclude that the enormous creatures that traverse the planet’s oceans today are descended from small hoofed ancestors […]
WFS News: First skeletal remains of Phoebodus found in Morocco
November 5th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has found the first skeletal remains of Phoebodus—an ancient shark—in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes the fossil and compares it to a modern shark and fish. Ancient sharks […]
Posted in General Tags: Morocco, Phoebodus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Morphological characteristics of preparator air-scribe marks: Implications for taphonomic research
November 3rd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Morphological characteristics of preparator air-scribe marks: Implications for taphonomic research Taphonomic analyses of bone-surface modifications can provide key insights into past biotic involvement with animal remains, as well as elucidate the context(s) of other biostratinomic (pre-burial) processes, diagenesis, excavation, preparation and storage. Such analyses, however, first require researchers […]
WFS News: Fossil shows trilobites go marching one by one
November 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The trilobites go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah … well, at least they did, some 480 million years ago. New fossils from Morocco show lines of trilobites in orderly queues, likely buried by a storm as they trekked from one place to another under the Ordovician seas […]
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October 25th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Rapid ocean acidification and protracted Earth system recovery followed the end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact Debate lingers over what caused the last mass extinction 66 million years ago, with intense volcanism and extraterrestrial impact the most widely supported hypotheses. However, without empirical evidence for either’s exact environmental effects, it is […]
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