@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun — reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth are intimately linked to our planet’s motion in […]
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WFS News: The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been found
August 28th, 2019 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) made the discovery after studying a coprolite taken from a rock-shelter in the country’s mountainous Catamarca Province, where the remains of now extinct megafauna have previously been recovered in stratigraphic excavations. Radiocarbon dating […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Fossil Anemone Tracks Don’t Fit Evolution
August 26th, 2019 Riffin @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 […]
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) […]
Posted in General Tags: plesiosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 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 […]
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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 […]
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