@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been discovered in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire, England. Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed of English Longhorn cattle, the fossils are stunningly well preserved. Despite being approximately 183-million-year-old, […]
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WFS News: Pachycormus: A prehistoric predator discovered in a farm field.
August 4th, 2022 
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No Comments »WFS News: Some species of Plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater
August 3rd, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco’s Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests some species of plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater. Plesiosaurs, first […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Plesiosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Mosasaurus: Apex ocean predator of the dinosaur age
July 1st, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Mosasaurus was a ferocious predator in the ancient oceans of the Cretaceous period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago). While dinosaurs dominated the land, Mosasaurus used its long tail and stumpy, paddle-like limbs to cruise through the water, devouring all kinds of prey with its massive jaws and sharp, cone-shaped teeth. Mosasaurus is one genus, […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Scientists Find Fossil Of Prehistoric Bear-Dog
June 20th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. A group of scientists has found a fossilised lower jaw of a giant creature that one roamed the Earth. Named Tartarocyon cazanavei, it lived in what is now France – between 12.8 and 12 million years ago. Also known as the bear-dog, the fossilised body part of the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Bear-Dog, fossil, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaurs found
June 16th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. New York: Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great […]
WFS News: Chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms
June 13th, 2022 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, Athira For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded could give us hints about how active they were and what their everyday lives were like, but the methods to determine […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Chemical clues, dinosaur metabolisms, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tanis: Fossil found of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike
May 29th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it’s not just their exquisite condition that’s turning heads – […]
Posted in General Tags: Asteroid impact, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal
April 27th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published today in AGU Advances, AGU’s journal for high-impact, open-access research and commentary across the Earth and space sciences. These […]
