@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 […]
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WFS News: 80 MYO dinosaur collagen confirmed
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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 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Skin impressions, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Watery secret of the dinosaur death pose
October 2nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Recreating the spectacular pose many dinosaurs adopted in death might involve following the simplest of instructions: just add water. When palaeontologists are lucky enough to find a complete dinosaur skeleton – whether it be a tiny Sinosauropteryxor an enormous Apatosaurus – there’s a good chance it will be […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: death pose, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Watery secret, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 3D Camouflage in a Psittacosaurus Dinosaur
September 17th, 2016 Riffin After reconstructing the colour patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers from the University of Bristol have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning “parrot lizard,” a reference to its parrot-like beak) was light on its underside and darker on top. This colour pattern, known as countershading, is a common form of camouflage in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 3D Camouflage, Dinosaur, Psittacosaurus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »world’s oldest Jurassic dinosaur fossil?
January 22nd, 2016 Riffin It could be the long-lost ancestor of the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. A fossil discovered in the UK is thought to be the oldest Jurassic dinosaur ever found and is one of the most complete specimens from the time period.The well-preserved remains of a juvenile dinosaur were found at Lavernock Point near Cardiff, Wales, a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, fossil, Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society, world’s oldest No Comments »Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis: New Species of Ceratopsian Dinosaur Discovered in China
December 13th, 2015 Riffin An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of hornless ceratopsian dinosaur, called Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis, in China. This new dinosaur was a distant cousin of the famed ceratopsian dinosaur Triceratops and lived early in the Late Jurassic period, roughly 160 million years ago. According to a study published this week in the journal […]
A 66 million year old forest fire sheds light on extinction of the dinosaurs
June 7th, 2014 Riffin Source: McGill University As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to a team of researchers from McGill University and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil-record evidence […]
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