@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica wasn’t always a land of ice. Millions of years ago, when the continent was still part of a huge Southern Hemisphere landmass called Gondwana, trees flourished near the South Pole. Now, newfound, intricate fossils of some of these trees are revealing how the plants thrived — and […]
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WFS News: 280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in Antarctica
November 16th, 2017 
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2 Comments »WFS news: World’s longest sauropod dinosaur track way brought to light
November 14th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 2009, the world’s largest dinosaur tracks were discovered in the French village of Plagne, in the Jura Mountains. Since then, a series of excavations at the site has uncovered other tracks, sprawling over more than 150 meters. They form the longest sauropod trackway ever to be found. […]
WFS News: Finger and toe fossils belonged to tiny primates 45 million years ago
November 10th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev At Northern Illinois University, Dan Gebo opens a cabinet and pulls out a drawer full of thin plastic cases filled with clear gelatin capsules. Inside each numbered capsule is a tiny fossil — some are so small they rival the diminutive size of a mustard seed. It’s hard […]
Posted in General Tags: 45 million years ago, Finger and toe, fossils, primates, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ichthyosaur fossil discovered for first time in India
October 26th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur – an extinct marine reptile – in the western state of Gujarat. This is the first time an ichthyosaur fossil has been discovered in India.The fossil was found inside rocks from the Mesozoic Era, which […]
Posted in General Tags: discovered, first time in India, fossil, Ichthyosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Growing pains: The oldest trees on Earth ripped themselves apart, fossils show
October 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered 374-million-year-old tree fossils from the dawn of Earth’s forests — and found that these strange plants literally had to rip themselves apart as they grew. The fossils, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shed light on the nature of ancient forests […]
Posted in General Tags: fossils, Growing pains, oldest trees, Riffin T Sajeev, ripped themselves apart, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Mongolian micro fossils point to the rise of animals on Earth.
October 24th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Yale-led research team has discovered a cache of embryo-like microfossils in northern Mongolia that may shed light on questions about the long-ago shift from microbes to animals on Earth. Called the Khesen Formation, the site is one of the most significant for early Earth fossils since […]
WFS News: New tyrannosaur fossil is most complete found in Southwestern US
October 22nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A remarkable new fossilized skeleton of a tyrannosaur discovered in the Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern Utah was airlifted by helicopter Sunday, Oct 15, from a remote field site, and delivered to the Natural History Museum of Utah where it will be […]
Posted in General Tags: complete, fossil, New, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tyrannosaur, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Archaeology fossil teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history
October 21st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 9.7-million-year-old discovery has left a team of German scientists scratching their heads. The teeth seem to belong to a species only known to have appeared in Africa several million years later. A team of German archaeologists discovered a puzzling set of teeth in the former riverbed of […]
Posted in General Tags: Archaeology, discovery, Fossil teeth, Germany, human history, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: Researchers discover 48-million-year-old lipids in a fossil bird
October 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev As a rule, soft parts do not withstand the ravages of time; hence, the majority of vertebrate fossils consist only of bones. Under these circumstances, a new discovery from the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Messel Pit” near Darmstadt in Germany comes as an even bigger surprise: a 48-million-year […]
Posted in General Tags: 48-million-year-old, discover, Fossil bird, lipids, Researchers, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Researchers have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from a 54-million-year-old sea turtle hatchling
October 18th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from a 54 million-year-old sea turtle hatchling. The work adds to the growing body of evidence supporting persistence of original molecules over millions […]
