University of Alberta-led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a complete hunter, able to swoop down and pickup fish as well as its previously known prey of birds and tree dwelling mammals. U of A paleontology graduate student Scott Persons says new evidence of Microrpator’s hunting ability came from fossilized remains in […]
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Earth day ,2013 : Think about Mother earth.
April 22nd, 2013 
Riffin Cree Indian Proverb quotes Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) For 200 years we’ve […]
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No Comments »WFS Tools : Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
April 21st, 2013 Riffin 1. What is GPR? acronym for Ground Penetrating Radar ground can be soil, rock, concrete, wood – anything non-metallic emits a pulse into the ground records echoes builds an image from the echoes Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is the general term applied to techniques which employ radio waves, typically in the 1 to 1000 […]
Carnivorous Dinosaur Dahalokely tokana Raises More Questions Than It Answers
April 20th, 2013 Riffin The first new species of dinosaur from Madagascar in nearly a decade was announced today, filling an important gap in the island’s fossil record. Dahalokely tokana (pronounced “dah-HAH-loo-KAY-lee too-KAH-nah”) is estimated to have been between nine and 14 feet long, and it lived around 90 million years ago. Dahalokely belongs to a group called abelisauroids, […]
Anal fin of Euphanerops Fossil offers new insight into evolution
April 19th, 2013 Riffin An unusual fossil fish that has fins behind its anus could have implications for human evolution according to a scientist at The University of Manchester. Dr Robert Sansom from the Faculty of Life Sciences identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that swam in the seas around 370 million years ago. The […]
Scientists decoded the genome of living fossil Coelacanth
April 18th, 2013 Riffin An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of a creature whose evolutionary history is both enigmatic and illuminating: the African coelacanth. A sea-cave dwelling, five-foot long fish with limb-like fins, the coelacanth was once thought to be extinct. A living coelacanth was discovered off the African coast in 1938, and since then, questions […]
Tulip tree’s genome is ‘molecular fossil’
April 17th, 2013 Riffin The “extraordinary level of conservation” of genetic data in the tulip tree remains largely unchanged since the dinosaurs, a study suggests.The species’ genomic change is about 2,000 times slower than in humans, making it a “molecular fossil”, a team of US researchers said. The new information has affected our understanding of flowering plants’ evolution, they […]
WFS Profile: Dr. Rinchen Barsbold
April 17th, 2013 Riffin Dr. Rinchen Barsbold born December 21, 1935 in Ulan Bator is a Mongolian paleontologist and geologist. He works with the Institute of Geology, at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is recognized around the world as a leader in vertebrate paleontology and Mesozoic stratigraphy. Barsbold has been instrumental in the discovery and recovery of one of the largest […]
Dinosaur Was a Strong Swimmer, Doggy-Paddle Style
April 16th, 2013 Riffin Claw marks on a 100-million-year-old riverbed in China reveal how some dinosaurs doggy-paddled over long distances, scientists say. “What we have are scratches left by the tips of a two-legged dinosaur’s feet,” study researcher Scott Persons, of the University of Alberta, said in a statement. “The dinosaur‘s claw marks show it was swimming along in […]
Fossilized shell-breaking Crab
April 15th, 2013 Riffin While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary history of crabs and the shelled mollusks upon which they preyed. In a museum display case he recognized a 67- to 69-million-year-old fossil […]
