@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it’s not just their exquisite condition that’s turning heads – […]
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
WFS News: Tanis: Fossil found of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike
May 29th, 2022 
Riffin 
Posted in General 
Tags: Asteroid impact, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 
No Comments »WFS News: Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal
April 27th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published today in AGU Advances, AGU’s journal for high-impact, open-access research and commentary across the Earth and space sciences. These […]
WFS News: Scientists claim they’ve found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
April 11th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Athira Scientists say that the perfectly preserved leg of a Thescelosaurus dinosaur, complete with scaly skin, can be dated back to the mass extinction event because of the presence of debris from the impact, the BBC said. It is widely believed that when the 7.5 mile-wide asteroid, approximately the size of […]
Posted in General Tags: asteroid, Athira Riffin, Dinosaur, mass extinction, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Well-preserved new dinosaur fossil found in Alberta
April 8th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev six years after miners had discovered it by accident, the best preserved dinosaur fossil was was unveiled at Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. Dinosaur fossils are not more than a rock for the casual observers, before they are put into the museum. However, the observers this time […]
Posted in General Tags: Alberta, Dinosaur Fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Forget mammoths: These researchers are exploring bringing back the extinct Christmas Island rat.
March 18th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in the 1990s, de-extinction efforts have focused on grand animals with mythical stature, but in a paper published March 9 in the journal Current Biology, […]
Posted in General Tags: mammoths, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ankylosaur was sluggish and deaf?
February 14th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ankylosaurs could grow up to eight meters in body length and represent a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, also called ‘living fortresses’: Their body was cluttered with bony plates and spikes. Some of their representatives, the ankylosaurids sometimes possessed a club tail, while nodosaurids had elongated spikes on […]
Posted in General Tags: Ankylosauria, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New fossils of Australopithecus sediba reveal a nearly complete lower back
November 29th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel Sajeev Adaptations of the lower back to bipedalism are frequently discussed but infrequently demonstrated in early fossil hominins. Newly discovered lumbar vertebrae contribute to a near-complete lower back of Malapa Hominin 2 (MH2), offering additional insights into posture and locomotion in Australopithecus sediba. We show that MH2 possessed a lower back […]
Posted in General Tags: Australopithecus sediba, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Reconstructing the dragonfly and damselfly family tree
November 1st, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Many people hate insects, but the iridescent colors and elegant flying style of dragonflies and damselflies have made them firm favorites worldwide. They have been around in some form for hundreds of millions of years, but the evolutionary history of these relics of prehistoric life has been poorly […]
Posted in General Tags: damselfly, dragonfly, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A New Genus and Species of Grass, Eograminis balticus (Poaceae: Arundinoideae), in Baltic Amber
October 19th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Amber research by the Oregon State University College of Science has produced the first definite identification of grass in fossilized tree resin from the Baltic region, home to the world’s most well-known amber deposits. The specimen studied by George Poinar Jr., named Eograminis balticus, also represents the first […]
Posted in General Tags: Eograminis balticus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Grass, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph?
October 16th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph? Citation: Kin A, Błażejowski B (2014) The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph? PLoS ONE 9(10): e108036. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108036 Editor: Alistair Robert Evans, Monash University, Australia A new horseshoe crab species, Limulus darwini, is described from the uppermost […]
Posted in General Tags: Horseshoe Crab, Limulus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »
