@ 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 […]
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WFS News: Fossil evidence of core monocots in the Early Cretaceous
July 22nd, 2019 
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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) […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Africa, cichlid evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Elektorornis chenguangi sp. : Bird with unusually long toes found fossilized in amber
July 16th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Meet the ancient bird that had toes longer than its lower legs. Researchers have discovered a bird foot from 99 million years ago preserved in amber that had a hyper-elongated third toe. The study, published in the journal Current Biology on July 11, suggests that this bird might have […]
WFS News: Cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero
June 23rd, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Bad news, Jurassic Park fans — the odds of scientists cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero. That’s because DNA breaks down over time and isn’t stable enough to stay intact for millions of years. And while proteins, the molecules in all living things […]
Posted in General Tags: ancient DNA, Cloning, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The largest recorded dinosaur foot ever recorded came from a brachiosaur
June 9th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Measuring almost a metre wide, the largest recorded dinosaur foot ever recorded came from a brachiosaur, palaeontologists have revealed. One of the biggest creatures ever to walk the earth, The 150 million-year-old fossil was discovered in Wyoming, in 1998. But a new study has confirmed the species – a type of sauropod – roamed […]
WFS News:Fossil nuts from ancient Gondwanan beech tree challenge plant evolution
June 7th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Yet researchers reporting today in the journal Science say fossils of a beech tree found in southern Argentina are from a genus which these days grows in the wet forests of South-East Asia and New Guinea — thousands of kilometres north of freezing Patagonia. They say the 52-million-year-old fossils, […]
Posted in General Tags: Fossil nuts, Gondwanan, plant evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: A School of Fish, Captured in a Fossil
May 31st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized fish captured mid-swim offer a rare glimpse into extinct animal behavior — and suggest that swimming in schools developed at least 50 million years ago. A limestone shale slab from the Eocene Epoch reveals that extinct, thimble-sized fish called Erismatopterus levatus may have coordinated their motion similar to how fish in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, School of Fish, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: True colors of dinosaurs and other creatures from Fossils.
May 26th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev What color was T. Rex? What about triceratops or glyptodon? Until recently, the palette of prehistory was the sole provenance of daydreams, CGI artists or kids with crayons. Advances in imaging technology are bringing us closer to real answers. Over the past decade, we’ve learned that Sinosauropteryx’s tail was striped, and […]
WFS News: Amber imitation?
May 17th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Prehistoric Iberians created “imitation amber” by repeatedly coating bead cores with tree resins, according to a study published May 1, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carlos Odriozola from Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and colleagues. Many studies have confirmed the ornamental and symbolic importance of amber to European […]
Posted in General Tags: Amber, imitation, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground
May 12th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Identification of avian flapping motion from non-volant winged dinosaurs based on modal effective mass analysis Before they evolved the ability to fly, two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground, according to new research by Jing-Shan Zhao of […]
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