@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica wasn’t always a frozen wasteland — 250 million years ago, it was covered in forests and rivers, and the temperature rarely dipped below freezing. It was also home to diverse wildlife, including early relatives of the dinosaurs. Scientists have just discovered the newest member of that family […]
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Glaciers in East Antarctica also ‘imperiled’ by climate change
July 30th, 2018 
Riffin Source:University of California – Irvine A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level. In a paper published this week in the American […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Five New Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica
March 18th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica is one of the harshest environments on the planet. As the coldest, driest continent, it harbors a world of extremes. The powerful katabatic winds that rush from the polar plateau down the steep, vertical drops around the continent’s coast can stir up turbulent snowstorms lasting days or weeks, and the […]
Posted in General Tags: Antarctica, Five New Fossil Forests, found, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in Antarctica
November 16th, 2017 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in General Tags: 280-Million-Year-Old, Antarctica, Fossil Forest, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 2 Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur-era fossils unearthed in Antarctica
June 22nd, 2016 Riffin An international research team just made a big fossil discovery in Antarctica, unearthing a haul of remains that date between 67 million and 71 million years old. “We found a lot of really great fossils,” Steve Salisbury, of the University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences, said in a press release. “The rocks the were […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Antarctica, Dinosaur-era, fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica
January 1st, 2016 Riffin Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet’s cold surface, but Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed, split, wrinkled and ruptured by the roiling of warmer layers beneath it.The contrast between […]
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