@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A large fossil discovery has helped shed light on the history of dinosaurs in Wales. The find is reported in Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association. Until recently, the land of the dragon didn’t have any dinosaurs. However, in the last 10 years, several dinosaurs have been reported, but […]
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WFS News: Large fossil discovery finally exposes origins of Welsh dragons
May 31st, 2024 
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No Comments »WFS News: Musankwa sanyatiensis, a new dinosaur from Zimbabwe
May 30th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named from Zimbabwe. The research detailing this significant discovery is set to be published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Dinosaur, Musankwa sanyatiensis, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, Zimbabwe No Comments »WFS News: The skull of a prehistoric sea monster found on the Jurassic Coast has made it into the world record books.
May 29th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The skull of a prehistoric sea monster found on the Jurassic Coast has made it into the world record books, according to BBC. The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from high above a beach in Dorset, was the subject of a BBC film presented by Sir […]
WFS News: Tharosaurus indicus, an oldest long-necked dinosaur unearthed in India
November 3rd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of the oldest long-necked dinosaur that inhabited Earth about 167 million years ago have been unearthed in India that reveal the country was a “major centre of dinosaur evolution”, experts said. The discovery unearths some of the oldest plant-eating giant reptiles to have roamed the planet. The dinosaur, named Tharosaurus indicus after India’s Thar desert, walked […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, INDIA, long-necked dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tharosaurus indicus, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
October 23rd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct species for the first time. The […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Extinct, Historical RNA, Riffin Russel T Sajeev, Tasmanian tiger., WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News:Plate tectonic cross-roads: Reconstructing the Panthalassa-Neotethys Junction Region from Philippine Sea Plate and Australasian oceans and orogens.
October 17th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in Utrecht had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates […]
WFS News:125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers Reveal Traces of Ancient Proteins
October 6th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Previous studies suggested that ancient feathers had a different composition to the feathers of birds today. The new research, however, reveals […]
Posted in General Tags: 125-Million, Ancient Proteins, Athira, Dinosaur Feathers, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Traces, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New Research Sheds Light on How Dinosaurs Became Giants
September 27th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Bone cavities called air sacs emerged in the precursors of long-necked dinosaurs around 225 million years ago, according to the analysis of a specimen found in Rio Grande do Sul state, South Brazil. The missing link has just been found, bridging the gap between the […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, dinosaurs, Giants, New Research, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Long-Standing Question Answered – How Mass Extinction Paved the Way for Oysters and Clams
September 26th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev One of the biggest crises in Earth’s history, marked by a significant shift in shellfish, saw the widespread replacement of brachiopods, often referred to as ‘lamp shells’, with bivalve species such as oysters and clams. This happened as a result of the devastating end-Permian mass extinction, which effectively […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Clams, mass extinction, Oysters, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Large fossil spider found in Australia
September 25th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Australian scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) paleontologist Dr. Matthew McCurry have formally named and described a fossil spider, Megamonodontium mccluskyi, which is between 11–16 million years old. The findings on this new genus of spider […]
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