@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Prehistoric Iberians created “imitation amber” by repeatedly coating bead cores with tree resins, according to a study published May 1, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carlos Odriozola from Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and colleagues. Many studies have confirmed the ornamental and symbolic importance of amber to European […]
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WFS News: Amber imitation?
May 17th, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: Two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground
May 12th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Identification of avian flapping motion from non-volant winged dinosaurs based on modal effective mass analysis Before they evolved the ability to fly, two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground, according to new research by Jing-Shan Zhao of […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Two-legged dinosaurs, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Sollasina cthulhu, The ‘Monstrous’ ancient fossil
April 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An incredibly well-preserved fossil unearthed in Herefordshire has been named after a hideous creature from fiction: Sollasina cthulhu. Although no larger than 3cm wide, its array of tentacles reminded the team who discovered it of the monster Cthulhu created by American author H.P. Lovecraft. A gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, the […]
WFS News:The First Definite Lambeosaurine Bone From the Liscomb Bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, United States
April 3rd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The First Definite Lambeosaurine Bone From the Liscomb Bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, United States Ryuji Takasaki,Anthony R. Fiorillo, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Ronald S. Tykoski & Paul J. McCarthy Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 5384 (2019) The Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, a rock unit that represents lower coastal plain and […]
Posted in General Tags: Alaska, Creek Formation, cretaceous Prince, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev WFS News, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations
March 27th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale populations Many whales take long journeys each year, spending summers feeding in cold waters and moving to warm tropical waters to breed. One theory suggests that these long-distance migrations originated around 5 million years […]
Posted in General Tags: Fossil barnacles, migrations, prehistoric whale, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Oldest Frog Relative from North America
March 14th, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev It’s possible that during the Triassic period, the crocodile-like phytosaur snapped at a frog-like creature, but missed. It’s a good thing it did, because 216 million years later, paleontologists have found the fossils of these tiny creatures, the oldest known frog relative from North America, a new […]
WFS News: Computer simulations on swimming of Ichthyosaurs
March 8th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Using computer simulations and 3D models, palaeontologists from the University of Bristol have uncovered more detail on how Mesozoic sea dragons swam. The research, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, sheds new light on their energy demands while swimming, showing that even the first […]
Posted in General Tags: Computer simulations, ichthyosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, swimming, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird adzebill traced to Africa
March 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant flightless bird — the now extinct adzebill — showing that some of its closest living relatives are the pint-sized flufftails from Madagascar and Africa. Led by the University of Adelaide, the research in the journal Diversity showed that […]
Posted in General Tags: adzebill, Africa, giant extinct New Zealand bird, Origins, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago
March 1st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago — evidence that life was active in an environment thought uninhabitable until now, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows. The sea bed in the deep ocean during the Cambrian period was thought to have been inhospitable […]
WFS News: Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation
January 27th, 2019 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists. Their study, published online in Nature Geoscience, provides new evidence of a climate feedback that […]
