Researchers have discovered two small dinosaurs together with a lagerpetid, a group of animals that are recognized as precursors of dinosaurs. The discovery made in Brazil and reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on November 10 represents the first time that a dinosaur and a dinosaur precursor have ever been found together. The […]
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WFS News: Dinosaurs’ rise was ‘more gradual’
November 15th, 2016 
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No Comments »WFS News: Triopticus shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes of distant relatives
September 27th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in animals before those dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. In a study in today’s (Sept. 22) issue of Current Biology, a multi-institutional team of paleontologists including Virginia Tech College of Science researcher Michelle Stocker […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, skull shapes, Triopticus, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
August 19th, 2016 Riffin A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute. The researchers believe that massive amounts of stratospheric soot ejected from rocks following the famous Chicxulub asteroid impact, caused global […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ammonites, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Soot, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »How deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs : World Fossil Society News
April 24th, 2016 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, A team led by experts at Cardiff University has provided new evidence to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago. Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: asteroid strike, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, sea creatures, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaurs ‘already in decline’ before asteroid apocalypse
April 19th, 2016 Riffin Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has found. The findings provide a revolution in the understanding of dinosaur evolution. Palaeontologists previously thought that dinosaurs were flourishing right up until they were wiped out by a massive meteorite impact […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: asteroid apocalypse, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded
May 30th, 2015 Riffin Dinosaurs grew as fast as your average living mammal, according to a research paper published by Stony Brook University paleontologist Michael D’Emic, PhD. The paper, to published in Science on May 29, is a re-analysis of a widely publicized 2014 Science paper on dinosaur metabolism and growth that concluded dinosaurs were neither ectothermic nor endothermic […]
Nundasuchus: A reptiles lived before dinosaurs
January 21st, 2015 Riffin Finding a new species of dinosaur is pretty rare. Getting a hand in the discovery and naming of one — that’s rarer still. Or it would be for anyone other than 32-year-old Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor of geological sciences in the College of Science and the newest addition to Virginia Tech’s paleontology team. Nesbitt […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, Nundasuchus, Reptiles, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaurs fell victim to perfect storm of events
July 30th, 2014 Riffin Dinosaurs might have survived the asteroid strike that wiped them out if it had taken place slightly earlier or later in history, scientists say. A fresh study using up-to-date fossil records and improved analytical tools has helped palaeontologists to build a new narrative of the prehistoric creatures’ demise, some 66 million years ago. They found […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Leaf-mining insects destroyed with the dinosaurs, others quickly appeared
July 27th, 2014 Riffin After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs’ extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely disappeared. Only a million years later, at Mexican Hat, in southeastern Montana, fossil leaves show diverse leaf-mining traces from new insects that were not present during […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, insects, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Poisonous prehistoric ‘raptor’ discovered by research team from Kansas and China
January 30th, 2013 Riffin A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. This is the first report of venom in the lineage that leads to modern birds. “This thing is a venomous bird for all intents and purposes,” said Larry Martin, […]
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