@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica is one of the harshest environments on the planet. As the coldest, driest continent, it harbors a world of extremes. The powerful katabatic winds that rush from the polar plateau down the steep, vertical drops around the continent’s coast can stir up turbulent snowstorms lasting days or weeks, and the […]
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WFS News: Five New Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica
March 18th, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle
March 14th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A UNLV scientist has discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist as far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’s mantle. Groundbreaking research by UNLV geoscientist Oliver Tschauner and colleagues found diamonds pushed up from the Earth’s interior had traces of unique crystallized water […]
Posted in General Tags: deep, Earth's mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Unique diamond impurities, water, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Caudal autotomy as anti-predatory behaviour in Palaeozoic reptiles
March 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Imagine that you’re a voracious carnivore who sinks its teeth into the tail of a small reptile and anticipates a delicious lunch, when, in a flash, the reptile is gone and you are left holding a wiggling tail between your jaws. A new study by the University of […]
WFS News: Baby bird fossil ( Enantiornithes) gives a rare look at avian development
March 8th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossil, which dates back to the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago), is a chick from a group of prehistoric birds called, […]
Posted in General Tags: avian development, Baby bird fossil, Enantiornithes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced
March 3rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world’s most iconic animal families — namely elephants, and their relatives mammoths and mastodons-spanning millions of years. The team of scientists-which included researchers from McMaster, the […]
WFS News: Forecasting the eruption of an open-vent volcano using resonant infrasound tones.
February 22nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has shown that monitoring inaudible low frequencies called infrasound produced by a type of active volcano could improve the forecasting of significant, potentially deadly eruptions. Scientists from Stanford and Boise State University analyzed the infrasound detected by monitoring stations on the slopes of the Villarrica […]
WFS News: Osaka whale fossil believed to be first evidence of Eden’s whale
February 19th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev OSAKA – A whale skull discovered just over 50 years ago in the city of Osaka is now thought to be the world’s first known trace of an Eden’s whale, dating from between 4,000 and 8,800 years ago. The fossilized remains were reclassified in a study published recently in […]
Posted in General Tags: Eden’s whale, first evidence, Osaka, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, whale fossil, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil footprints may put lizards on two feet 110 million years ago
February 16th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized footprints from an iguana-like reptile provide what could be the earliest evidence of a lizard running on two legs. The 29 exceptionally well-preserved lizard tracks, found in a slab of rock from an abandoned quarry in Hadong County, South Korea, include back feet with curved digits and […]
WFS News:Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub meteor strike
February 12th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New University of Oregon research has identified gravity-related fluctuations dating to 66 million years ago along deep ocean ridges that point to a “one-two punch” from the big meteor that struck off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, possibly triggering a worldwide release of volcanic magma that could have helped seal […]
Posted in General Tags: Chicxulub, global volcanism, meteor strike, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Seafloor data, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: When did flowers originate?
February 11th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Flowering plants likely originated between 149 and 256 million years ago according to new UCL-led research. The study, published today in New Phytologist by researchers from the UK and China, shows that flowering plants are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular studies, nor as young […]
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