@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally since the time of the dinosaurs. Now, a well-preserved 80-million-year-old pollen cone discovered in California has rewritten […]
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WFS News: Morphological evolution of cycads ?
May 10th, 2023 
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No Comments »WFS News: Fossil evidence of tylosis formation in Late Devonian plants
April 30th, 2023 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Fossil evidence of tylosis,Late Devonian,plants
WFS News: World’s oldest preserved brain found in prehistoric fish fossil
March 7th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The “oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain” has been identified in a 319 million-year-old fish fossil. The fossilised Coccocephalus wildi was found in a coal mine in Lancashire more than a century ago and had been sitting in the archives of Manchester Museum. Research by teams […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, brain, Fish fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, world’s oldest No Comments »WFS News: Australia’s most intact Cooyoo australis fossil discovered in Richmond with specimen in its belly
March 2nd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossil of a predator fish that existed more than 100 million years ago has been discovered in north-west Queensland. Experts believe it is one Australia’s most intact fossils of the Cooyoo australis fish — a large carnivore that once swam Queensland’s inland Eromanga Sea. The rare find was stumbled […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Cooyoo australis fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago
December 19th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods — relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders — dominated the seas 470 million years ago. Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large “free-swimming” […]
Posted in General Tags: 470 million years, Arthropods, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS News: Fossil site, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago
November 8th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the Ediacaran Period some 550 million years ago. The […]
WFS News: 2-Billion-Year-Old Microbe Fossils found
October 26th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs. Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of primitive bacteria. These ancient microbes are likely cyanobacteria, but they are unusually large and have weird shapes protruding from them, […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, micro bacteria fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Palaeontologists found Fossil algae, dating from 541 million years ago
October 2nd, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in China, this 541-million-year-old fossil is the first and oldest green […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Fossil Algae, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Paleontologists found a 500 Million Years Old fossils showcasing this three-eyed predator.
September 12th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev What had spiny claws protruding from its mouth, sported a body shaped like a toilet brush and looked as though it slithered off the cover of a sci-fi novel? An ocean predator from the Cambrian period known as Stanleycaris hirpex. Newfound fossils of the bizarre creature are […]
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August 26th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates and became adapted for eating — an idea known as the “outside-in” hypothesis? Or did they evolve independent of scales, originating deep within the oral cavity […]
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