@ WFS,World Fossil Society ,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev AN EXTRAORDINARILY well-preserved 110-million-year-old dinosaur found in a mine pit in Canada now has a name and evidence of a troubled past, researchers said Thursday. With fossilized skin and scales, the dragon-like creature is actually a new kind of nodosaur, coined Borealopelta markmitchelli, after the museum […]
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WFS News: Well-preserved 110 MYO dinosaur found in Canada
August 6th, 2017 
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No Comments »World’s ‘first named dinosaur’ reveals new teeth with scanning tech!
June 16th, 2017 Riffin Pioneering technology has shed fresh light on the world’s first scientifically-described dinosaur fossil — over 200 years after it was first discovered — thanks to research.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dating, Dinosaur, fossil, palaeontology, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tooth, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The first reported ceratopsid dinosaur from eastern North America
May 23rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A chance discovery in Mississippi provides the first evidence of an animal closely related to Triceratops in eastern North America. The fossil, a tooth from rocks between 68 and 66 million years old, shows that two halves of the continent previously thought to be separated by seaway were […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ceratopsid, Dinosaur, North America, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, The first reported, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Nodosaur,The Amazing Dinosaur Accidentally Found
May 13th, 2017 Riffin Some 110 million years ago, this armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now western Canada, until a flooded river swept it into open sea. The dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. Its skull still bears tile-like plates and a gray patina of fossilized skins. On the afternoon of March 21, 2011, a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Nodosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Dinofact : SYNTARSUS “Fused or Flat Ankle”
February 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev ANATOMY Syntarsus was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two long legs. This predator was about 10 feet long (3 m) and weighed about 60-70 pounds. It had light, hollow bones, a long, pointed head with dozens of small, serrated teeth, and a long neck. Syntarsus had […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinofact, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, SYNTARSUS, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur (Lufengosaurus) rib bones reveal remnants of 195-million-year-old protein
February 3rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Is fossilized rock all that remains when a dinosaur decomposes? New research from scientists at the University […]
WFS News: 80 MYO dinosaur collagen confirmed
January 24th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Utilizing the most rigorous testing methods to date, researchers from North Carolina State University have isolated additional collagen peptides from an 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus. The work lends further support to the idea that organic molecules can persist in specimens tens of millions of years longer than originally believed and […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 80 MYO, collagen, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS news: Limusaurus, A dinosaur species lost its teeth in adolescence
December 25th, 2016 Riffin @WFs,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers have discovered that a species of dinosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, lost its teeth in adolescence and did not grow another set as adults. The finding, published today in Current Biology, is a radical change in anatomy during a lifespan and may help to explain why birds have beaks […]
WFS News: Fossil clues to aftermath of dinosaur asteroid strike
November 7th, 2016 Riffin Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant–insect associations after the end-Cretaceous extinction Michael P. Donovan,, Ari Iglesias,, Peter Wilf,, Conrad C. Labandeira, & N. Rubén Cúneo The Southern Hemisphere may have provided biodiversity refugia after the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction. However, few extinction and recovery studies have been conducted in the terrestrial realm using well-dated macrofossil sites that […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: asteroid strike, Dinosaur, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Skin impressions of dinosaur found
October 18th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), have discovered in Vallcebre (Barcelona) an impression fossil with the surface of the skin of a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, a period right before their extinction. Its characteristics […]
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