@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,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,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,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 […]

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves of carbon into the oceans over thousands of years — but that nature did not come close to […]

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants — many of them long extinct — from less than a gram of sediment. The DNA extraction method, outlined in the journal Quarternary […]

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev To date only the length of the legendary giant shark Megalodon had been estimated. But now, a new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the rest of its body, including fins that are as large as an adult human. […]

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, before diversifying into 30 or 40 distinct anatomical designs. When and how animal ancestors made the transition from single-celled microbes to complex multicellular organisms has been the focus of intense debate. Until now, this question could only be addressed by studying living animals […]