@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, but about 250 million years ago something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is […]
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WFS News: T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark
January 24th, 2019 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark Scientists examining rock left over from the discovery of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex recently came across a surprise: shark teeth. The huge meat-eating dinosaur, the remains of which were extricated in the 1990s, was not killed by a shark. But, scientists said on […]
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No Comments »WFS News: World’s oldest fossil mushroom
January 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil preserved in limestone in northeast Brazil makes it a scientific wonder, scientists report in […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil mushroom, oldest, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides
January 19th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides SUSAN IVY-OCHS & FLORIAN KOBER Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal,57/1–2,157–189,Hannover 2008 Abstract: In the last decades surface exposure dating using cosmogenic nuclides has emerged as a powerful tool in Quaternary geochronology and landscape evolution studies. Cosmogenic nuclides are produced in rocks and […]
WFS News: An unexpected noncarpellate epigynous flower from the Jurassic of China
January 18th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Despite the importance of, the great interest in and intensive effort spent on investigating angiosperms, a controversy remains as to when and how this group came into existence. Since the time of Darwin, some scholars have proposed that angiosperms existed before the Cretaceous (Smith et al., 2010; Clarke et […]
WFS News: Trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere reconstructed
January 15th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record dates to 521 million years ago in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, when the continents were still inhospitable to most life forms. Few groups of animals adapted as successfully as trilobites, which were arthropods that lived on the […]
Posted in General Tags: reconstructed, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trilobite, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tooth Loss Precedes the Origin of Baleen in Whales
December 1st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Rivaling the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs, one of the most extraordinary transformations in the history of life was the evolution of baleen — rows of flexible hair-like plates that blue whales, humpbacks and other marine mammals use to filter relatively tiny prey from gulps of ocean water. […]
Posted in General Tags: Precedes the Origin of Baleen, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tooth Loss, WFS, WFS NEWS, Whales, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs
November 8th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs Citation: D’Emic MD, Whitlock JA, Smith KM, Fisher DC, Wilson JA (2013) Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069235 Editor: Alistair Robert Evans, Monash University, Australia Abstract Background Tooth replacement rate can be calculated […]
Posted in General Tags: dinosaurs, Evolution, High Tooth Replacement Rates, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sauropod, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Linking Geology and Microbiology
November 2nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Linking Geology and Microbiology: Inactive Pockmarks Affect Sediment Microbial Community Structure Citation: Haverkamp THA, Hammer Ø, Jakobsen KS (2014) Linking Geology and Microbiology: Inactive Pockmarks Affect Sediment Microbial Community Structure. PLoS ONE 9(1): e85990. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085990 Editor: Hauke Smidt, Wageningen University, Netherlands Pockmarks are geological features that are found on the […]
Posted in General Tags: Geology, Linking, Microbiology, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Synthetic microorganisms and study of evolution
November 1st, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists at Scripps Research and their collaborators have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have lived billions of years ago, allowing them to explore questions about how life evolved from inanimate molecules to single-celled organisms to the complex, multicellular lifeforms we see […]
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