@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the University of Leicester, working with an international team of geologists, have discovered an enigmatic fossil of a 450 million year-old creature resembling a tiny ice-cream cone. Fossils of the creature, in which the ‘body’ resembles a scoop of ice cream atop the cone, was located […]
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WFS News: 508-year old bristle worm found
January 22nd, 2018 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev TORONTO — A new fossil species of bristle worm has been found at the 508-million-year-old Marble Canyon site in B.C.’s Kootenay National Park. The worm found at the Burgess Shale site is helping scientists better understand analids, which include present-day leeches and earthworms.They are found in nearly all […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Expedition to explore the Havre volcano reveals surprising underwater details
January 21st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealand. The raft eventually grew to more than […]
Posted in General Tags: Expedition, explore, Havre volcano, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, surprising, underwater, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Crepidosoma Doyleii,435m-year-old starfish fossil
January 20th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 435 million-year-old starfish fossil has been discovered in Conamara, Co Galway.The specimen will go on display at the Museum of Natural History in Dublin.It was discovered by geologist Dr Eamon Doyle in Maam Valley. Details of the find are contained in the latest issue of the Irish […]
Posted in General Tags: 435m-year-old, Crepidosoma Doyleii, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, starfish fossil, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Caihong juji ,Fossil of a “Rainbow dinosaur “
January 18th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in China have made a colourful discovery – a bird-like dinosaur with rainbow-coloured feathers. The fossilised remains were found in the north-east of China and it’s believed to have lived 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.It’s been called Caihong juji, which is the mandarin word […]
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January 17th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the University of Bristol, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two […]
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January 14th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Simon Carn studies carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions from volcanoes using remote sensing. Carn notes that monitoring emissions from volcanoes is a useful indicator to predict when volcanoes will erupt. With Mount Agung on eruption watch in Bali, Carn notes that monitoring emissions from the volcano may […]
Posted in General Tags: going to blow?, Mount Agung, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil evidence reveals butterflies and moths lived 50m years earlier than thought
January 11th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The earliest known fossil evidence of butterflies and moths has been found in Germany, showing they lived at least 50m years earlier than previously believed and challenging one of the most popular beliefs about their evolution. Scales from the wings of at least seven species were found in […]
Posted in General Tags: 50m years earlier, butterflies, Fossil evidence, moths, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo
January 10th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 2013, researchers announced that a pebble found in south-west Egypt, was definitely not from Earth. By 2015, other research teams had announced that the ‘Hypatia’ stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses. (The stone […]
Posted in General Tags: Hypatia, rattles, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, solar system, stone, WFS, WFS News: Extra-terrestrial, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Fossil Teeth Link Beast to Earth’s Largest Shark
January 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Source: Article by By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer,livescience.com It took nearly 40 years, but researchers have finally collected enough fossil teeth in Alabama to properly identify a previously unknown species of ancient shark — one that was a possible ancestor of megalodon, the largest shark to ever exist. […]
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