What did some of the first trees on Earth look like? Earth scientists from Cardiff University digging around in Arctic Norway are closing in on an answer. And that answer is: weirdly familiar. Fossilized stumps from a forest dating back 380 million years indicate that these trees must have resembled palm trees covered in fern-like […]
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Fossil Forests Discovered in the Arctic
November 20th, 2015 
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No Comments »Shark teeth analysis provides detailed new look at Arctic climate change
July 11th, 2014 Riffin Source : University of Chicago A new study shows that some shark species may be able to cope with the rising salinity of Arctic waters that may come with rising temperatures. The Arctic today is best known for its tundra and polar bear population, but it wasn’t always like that. Roughly 53 to 38 million […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: analysis, Arctic, climate change, detailed, new look, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Shark teeth, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »5-Million-Year-Old Arctic Fox Ancestor Found in Tibet
June 15th, 2014 Riffin Source : Livescience By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer | LiveScience.com The fossilized jawbone and teeth of a 5-million-year-old fox have been unearthed in Tibet. The fox, Vulpes qiuzhudingi, is probably the ancestor of modern Arctic foxes. The discovery, along with several other fossils from cold-loving mammals, buttress the Out of Tibet hypothesis: That iconic ice-age […]
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