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WFS News: New skulls of the basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from Frick, Switzerland: Is there more than one species?
February 28th, 2021 
Riffin WFS News: Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic
February 10th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Geoscientists have released a video that for the first time shows the uninterrupted movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years. The international effort provides a scientific framework for understanding planetary habitability and for finding critical metal resources needed for a low-carbon future. It reveals […]
WFS News: A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug.
January 20th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug’s physical characteristics — from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal features of its genitalia — […]
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January 16th, 2021 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev
WFS News: Reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change
January 10th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Sea ice is a critical indicator of changes in the Earth’s climate. A new discovery by Brown University researchers could provide scientists a new way to reconstruct sea ice abundance and distribution information from the ancient past, which could aid in understanding human-induced climate change happening now. In […]
WFS News: New flower from 100 million years ago
January 2nd, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Oregon State University researchers have identified a spectacular new genus and species of flower from the mid-Cretaceous period, a male specimen whose sunburst-like reach for the heavens was frozen in time by Burmese amber. “This isn’t quite a Christmas flower but it is a beauty, especially considering it […]
WFS News: Geology and climate influence rhizobiome composition of the phenotypically diverse tropical tree Tabebuia heterophylla
November 18th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Geology and climate influence rhizobiome composition of the phenotypically diverse tropical tree Tabebuia heterophylla Plant-associated microbial communities have diverse phenotypic effects on their hosts that are only beginning to be revealed. We hypothesized that morpho-physiological variations in the tropical tree Tabebuia heterophylla, observed on different geological substrates, arise in part […]
WFS News: Deep sea coral time machines reveal ancient CO2 burps
October 24th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Deep sea coral time machines reveal ancient CO2 burps The fossilised remains of ancient deep-sea corals may act as time machines providing new insights into the effect the ocean has on rising CO2 levels, according to new research carried out by the Universities of Bristol, St Andrews and Nanjing […]
WFS News: New study reveals how reptiles divided up the spoils in ancient seas
October 5th, 2020 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators such as crocodiles and giant lizards, but also entirely extinct groups such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Now for the first time, researchers at the University of Bristol have modelled the changing ecologies of […]
WFS News: Paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard
September 28th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Some 92 to 66 million years ago, as the Age of Dinosaurs waned, giant marine lizards called mosasaurs roamed an ocean that covered North America from Utah to Missouri and Texas to the Yukon. The air-breathing predators were streamlined swimmers that devoured almost everything in their path, including […]
