@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a fossil ilium and an ornamented skull bone […]
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WFS News: First Fossil Frog
June 9th, 2020 
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November 18th, 2018 Riffin Islands have been vital laboratories for advancing evolutionary theory since the pioneering work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century. Now, a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE from an international team of investigators describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animals, ecosystem, Eocene, Evolution, islands, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »A New Eocene Casquehead Lizard from North America
July 3rd, 2015 Riffin A new fossil showing affinities with extant Laemanctus offers the first clear evidence for a casquehead lizard (Corytophanidae) from the Eocene of North America. Along with Geiseltaliellus from roughly coeval rocks in central Europe, the new find further documents the tropical fauna present during greenhouse conditions in the northern mid-latitudes approximately 50 million years ago […]
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