@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists led by Michael Ackerson, a research geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provide new evidence that modern plate tectonics, a defining feature of Earth and its unique ability to support life, emerged roughly 3.6 billion years ago. Earth is the only planet known to […]
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WFS News: Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
May 18th, 2021 
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No Comments »WFS News: A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids
April 29th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan’s southern islands. The fossilized discovery yields new information about hadrosaur migration, suggesting that the herbivors migrated from Asia to North America instead of vice versa. […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons
April 1st, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons Yebo Liu ;Ross N. Mitchell ;Zheng-Xiang Li ;Uwe Kirscher ;Sergei A. Pisarevsky ;Chong Wang,Geology (2021) https://doi.org/10.1130/G48575.1 Many Archean cratons exhibit Paleoproterozoic rifted margins, implying they were pieces of some ancestral landmass(es). The idea that such an ancient continental assembly represents an Archean supercontinent has been proposed […]
WFS News: New skulls of the basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from Frick, Switzerland: Is there more than one species?
February 28th, 2021 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev
WFS News: Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic
February 10th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Geoscientists have released a video that for the first time shows the uninterrupted movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years. The international effort provides a scientific framework for understanding planetary habitability and for finding critical metal resources needed for a low-carbon future. It reveals […]
WFS News: A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug.
January 20th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug’s physical characteristics — from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal features of its genitalia — […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil assassin bug, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 150 million-year-old shark was one of the largest of its time
January 16th, 2021 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev
WFS News: Reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change
January 10th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Sea ice is a critical indicator of changes in the Earth’s climate. A new discovery by Brown University researchers could provide scientists a new way to reconstruct sea ice abundance and distribution information from the ancient past, which could aid in understanding human-induced climate change happening now. In […]
WFS News: New flower from 100 million years ago
January 2nd, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Oregon State University researchers have identified a spectacular new genus and species of flower from the mid-Cretaceous period, a male specimen whose sunburst-like reach for the heavens was frozen in time by Burmese amber. “This isn’t quite a Christmas flower but it is a beauty, especially considering it […]
WFS News: Vectaerovenator inopinatus,New dinosaur related to T. rex
August 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new species of dinosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton believe four bones found at Shanklin last year belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur. It lived in the Cretaceous period, 115 million years ago, and is estimated […]
