@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. These findings are announced in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Jellyfish belong to medusozoans, or animals producing medusae, and include today’s box jellies, hydroids, stalked jellyfish […]
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WFS News:Burgessomedusa phasmiformis;Oldest known species of swimming jellyfish
August 7th, 2023 
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No Comments »WFS News: World’s oldest fossil mushroom
January 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil preserved in limestone in northeast Brazil makes it a scientific wonder, scientists report in […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil mushroom, oldest, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 3.5 billion-year-old fossil is oldest ever sign of life identified by scientists
December 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock from Western Australia, scientists have identified the oldest life forms ever known.The evidence consists of cylindrical and thread-like shapes thought to be fossilised microbes from the early days of life on Earth. The “microfossils” have been known for over two decades, […]
WFS News: oldest known member of the phytosaurs found in China
April 11th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs — an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related crocodylians and lived during the Triassic Period, approximately 250 million years ago to 200 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: China, oldest, phytosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Oldest land-living animal from Gondwana found ?
August 3rd, 2014 Riffin A postdoctoral fellow from Wits University has discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. Dr Robert Gess, from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits, discovered the 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion from rocks of the Devonian Witteberg Group near Grahamstown. This unique specimen, which is a new species, […]
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