During the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago, birds belonging to hundreds of different species flitted around the dinosaurs and through the forests as abundantly as they flit about our woods and fields today. But after the cataclysm that wiped out most of the dinosaurs, only one group of birds remained: the […]
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Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions
November 17th, 2018 
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No Comments »Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
September 17th, 2018 Riffin Analysis of bones, from what was once the world’s largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought — according to a study published today, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances. A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 6000, activity, Ancient, Bird, Bones, human, island, madagascar, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tropical, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, years No Comments »Rare fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur
August 29th, 2018 Riffin An international team of researchers discovered a new species of dinosaur, Xiyunykus pengi, during an expedition to Xinjiang, China. The discovery is the latest stemming from a partnership between the George Washington University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The findings were published today in Current Biology along with the description of a second new […]
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November 18th, 2015 Riffin In the 19th century, Darwin’s most vocal scientific advocate was Thomas Henry Huxley, who is also remembered as a pioneer of the hypotheses that birds are living dinosaurs. He noticed several similarities of the skeleton of living birds and extinct dinosaurs, among them, a pointed portion of the anklebone projecting upwards onto the shank bone […]
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