@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago. But such a find is difficult to reconcile with the evolutionary teaching that muscles, and therefore animal locomotion, did not evolve until […]
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WFS News: Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird
August 25th, 2019 
Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton’s caracara from a flooded sinkhole on Great Abaco Island. Studies of ancient DNA from tropical birds have faced two formidable obstacles. Organic material quickly degrades […]
WFS News: prehistoric plesiosaur from Antarctica Breaks a Record for Body Size
August 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Loch Ness Monsterlook-alike in freezing Antarctica. And just like the legendary Nessie, it wasn’t the runt of the litter. The prehistoric plesiosaur — a four-flippered marine reptile that lived during the dinosaur age — measured a colossal 36 feet (11 meters) […]
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1 Comment »WFS News: A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia
August 22nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia Citation: Averianov A, Martin T, Lopatin A, Skutschas P, Schellhorn R, Kolosov P, et al. (2018) A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199983 Editor: Anthony Fiorillo, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, UNITED […]
Posted in General Tags: high-latitude fauna, mid-Mesozoic mammals, News, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society, Yakutia 16 Comments »WFS News: C. waiparensis, A New penguin species fossil from the Paleocene of New Zealand
August 14th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The discovery of Crossvallia waiparensis, a monster penguin from the Paleocene Epoch (between 66 and 56 million years ago), adds to the list of gigantic, but extinct, New Zealand fauna. These include the world’s largest parrot, a giant eagle, giant burrowing bat, the moa and other giant penguins. C. […]
WFS News: PhD student discovers new species of early dinosaur
August 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A PhD student of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has discovered a new dinosaur species in the University’s vaults, after it has been laying misidentified in a collection for 30 years. The team of scientists, led by PhD Student Kimberley Chapelle, recognised that the dinosaur was […]
Posted in General Tags: new species of early dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: Cretaceous lizard In Microraptor’s abdomen
July 31st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 120 million years ago, a small dinosaur gulped down a lizard, swallowing the reptile whole. The wee lizard’s story might have ended there, but the dinosaur died soon after and was preserved as a fossil. Millions of years later, paleontologists discovered the scaly meal in the dinosaur’s […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil Oysters contain evidence of ancient meteorite
July 28th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found dozens of tiny glass beads, likely the calling cards of an ancient meteorite. Analysis of the beads suggests they are microtektites, particles that form when the explosive impact of an extraterrestrial object sends molten […]
Posted in General Tags: meteorite, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS News: Fossil Oysters, world fossil society 4 Comments »WFS News: Fossil evidence of core monocots in the Early Cretaceous
July 22nd, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Botanist Dr. Clement Coiffard of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin discovered the oldest, completely preserved lily in the research collection: Cratolirion bognerianum was found in calcareous sediments of a former freshwater lake in Crato in northeastern Brazil. With an age of about 115 million years, Cratolirion is […]
Posted in General Tags: cretaceous, Fossil evidence, monocots, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New light on cichlid evolution in Africa
July 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A collaborative research project carried out under the auspices of the GeoBio-Center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has developed an integrative approach to the classification of fossil cichlids, and identified the oldest known member of the Tribe Oreochromini. Holotype of †Oreochromimos kabchorensis gen. et sp. nov., OCO-2c-1a, b(1). (a1) […]
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