A new look at a fossil mammal with powerful front legs for digging is clearing up questions about the origin of a group of strange and scaly modern-day creatures called pangolins. First excavated in Mongolia in the 1970s, the fossil sat in storage for decades until researchers for the Russian Academy of Sciences rediscovered and […]
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Ancient termite-digging fossil added to mammal family tree
August 28th, 2012 
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No Comments »A New species of plant-eating dinosaur ?
August 28th, 2012 riffin A team of paleontologists, including a University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate, has described a new species of dinosaur based upon an incomplete skeleton found in western New Mexico. The new species,Jeyawati rugoculus, comes from rocks that preserve a swampy forest ecosystem that thrived near the shore of a vast inland sea 91 million years ago. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: hadrosaurs, Jeyawati rugoculus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil of “Shield”-Headed Croc Found in Morocco
August 27th, 2012 riffin A new prehistoric croc sporting an odd head “shield” has been found in Morocco, according to a study published . Dubbed ShieldCroc, the animal’s head appendage was surrounded by blood vessels and covered with a sheath like those seen in frilled dinosaurs, including Triceratops. At 30 to 35 feet (9 to 11 meters) long, the […]
Cause of Dinosaur Boom relating to rise of Rocky mountain
August 26th, 2012 riffin The evolution of new dinosaur species may have surged due to the rise of the Rocky Mountains and the emergence of a prehistoric inner sea in North America, researchers say. Duck-billed and horned dinosaurs flourished in North America, reaching a peak about 75 million years ago, a time known as the Campanian. For instance, one Campanian […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Rocky Mountain, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Story Of Prehistoric Climates From Fossil Wood
August 26th, 2012 Riffin New research into a missing link in climatology shows that the Earth was not overcome by a greenhouse period when dinosaurs dominated, but experienced rapid fluctuations in temperature and sea level change that resulted in a balance of the global carbon cycle. The study is being published in the March issue of Geology. “Most people […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, wood fossil, world fossil society No Comments »Debate on Dinosaur life
August 25th, 2012 riffin INTRODUCTION Some people think dinosaurs were cold-blooded; other people think dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Lots of scientists have studied the problem. There is information about posture, bone structure, and brain/body size. This essay will consider the evidence and try to come to a reasonable conclusion. THE BIG DEBATE They were reptiles, so they must have been […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinodsaur brain, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »The Origin and Initial Rise of Pelagic Cephalopods in the Ordovician
August 25th, 2012 riffin During the Ordovician the global diversity increased dramatically at family, genus and species levels. Partially the diversification is explained by an increased nutrient, and phytoplankton availability in the open water. Cephalopods areamong the top predators of todays open oceans. Their Ordovician occurrences, diversity evolution and abundance patternpotentially provides information on the evolution of the pelagic food […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ordovician cephalopods, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ocean Floor Sediments May Be Window on World’s Warmer Future
August 24th, 2012 riffin Analysis of seafloor sediment reveals lower oxygen levels in the ocean when the planet heated up 55.9 million years ago Digging into our planet’s past could help us prepare for a hot future. One dramatic spike in historical temperatures, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), occurred around 55.9 million years ago. That time was marked by […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ocean floor, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ancient fossils reveal how the mollusc got its teeth
August 23rd, 2012 riffin The radula sounds like something from a horror movie — a conveyor belt lined with hundreds of rows of interlocking teeth. In fact, radulas are found in the mouths of most molluscs, from the giant squid to the garden snail. Now, a “prototype” radula found in 500-million-year-old fossils studied by University of Toronto graduate student […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mollusc Teeth, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Protection of Fossil Site By World Fossil Society
August 23rd, 2012 riffin CHENNAI: A writ plea has been made in the Madras High Court to declare Kolakkanatham fossil site in Ariyalur district as a paleontological heritage site. A vacation bench comprising Justices S Rajeswaran and KBK Vasuki, before which the public interest writ petition from Rajashree of Kalamassery in Kerala came up for hearing on Wednesday, ordered […]
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