@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago. But such a find is difficult to reconcile with the evolutionary teaching that muscles, and therefore animal locomotion, did not evolve until […]
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WFS News: Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird
August 25th, 2019 
Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton’s caracara from a flooded sinkhole on Great Abaco Island. Studies of ancient DNA from tropical birds have faced two formidable obstacles. Organic material quickly degrades […]
WFS News: prehistoric plesiosaur from Antarctica Breaks a Record for Body Size
August 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Loch Ness Monsterlook-alike in freezing Antarctica. And just like the legendary Nessie, it wasn’t the runt of the litter. The prehistoric plesiosaur — a four-flippered marine reptile that lived during the dinosaur age — measured a colossal 36 feet (11 meters) […]
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1 Comment »WFS News: A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia
August 22nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia Citation: Averianov A, Martin T, Lopatin A, Skutschas P, Schellhorn R, Kolosov P, et al. (2018) A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199983 Editor: Anthony Fiorillo, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, UNITED […]
Posted in General Tags: high-latitude fauna, mid-Mesozoic mammals, News, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society, Yakutia 16 Comments »WFS News: PhD student discovers new species of early dinosaur
August 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A PhD student of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has discovered a new dinosaur species in the University’s vaults, after it has been laying misidentified in a collection for 30 years. The team of scientists, led by PhD Student Kimberley Chapelle, recognised that the dinosaur was […]
Posted in General Tags: new species of early dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: Fossil Oysters contain evidence of ancient meteorite
July 28th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely the calling cards of an ancient meteorite. Analysis of the beads suggests they are microtektites, particles that form when the explosive impact of an extraterrestrial object sends molten […]
Posted in General Tags: meteorite, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS News: Fossil Oysters, world fossil society 4 Comments »WFS News: Fossil evidence of core monocots in the Early Cretaceous
July 22nd, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Botanist Dr. Clement Coiffard of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin discovered the oldest, completely preserved lily in the research collection: Cratolirion bognerianum was found in calcareous sediments of a former freshwater lake in Crato in northeastern Brazil. With an age of about 115 million years, Cratolirion is […]
Posted in General Tags: cretaceous, Fossil evidence, monocots, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero
June 23rd, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Bad news, Jurassic Park fans — the odds of scientists cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero. That’s because DNA breaks down over time and isn’t stable enough to stay intact for millions of years. And while proteins, the molecules in all living things […]
Posted in General Tags: ancient DNA, Cloning, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Fossil nuts from ancient Gondwanan beech tree challenge plant evolution
June 7th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Yet researchers reporting today in the journal Science say fossils of a beech tree found in southern Argentina are from a genus which these days grows in the wet forests of South-East Asia and New Guinea — thousands of kilometres north of freezing Patagonia. They say the 52-million-year-old fossils, […]
Posted in General Tags: Fossil nuts, Gondwanan, plant evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: True colors of dinosaurs and other creatures from Fossils.
May 26th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev What color was T. Rex? What about triceratops or glyptodon? Until recently, the palette of prehistory was the sole provenance of daydreams, CGI artists or kids with crayons. Advances in imaging technology are bringing us closer to real answers. Over the past decade, we’ve learned that Sinosauropteryx’s tail was striped, and […]
