@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 […]