@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A pair of paleontologists, one with the Museum für Naturkunde, in Germany, the other from the Università degli Studi di Torino, in Italy, has found new evidence that an ancient fish, which has defied categorization for hundreds of years, may belong to fishes in the […]
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WFS News: Mysterious 50-million-year-old fish to get a new genus
September 8th, 2024 
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No Comments »WFS News:Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
August 29th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents. More than 260 footprints were discovered in Brazil and in Cameroon, showing where land-dwelling dinosaurs were last […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, dinosaur footprints, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Gaiasia jennyae : Giant Fossil Discovery in Namibia Challenges Long-Held Evolutionary Theories
August 28th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Researchers have unearthed a giant basal tetrapod fossil in Namibia, revealing new aspects of early land animal evolution and highlighting the importance of southern continents in the study of these ancient species. An international team of paleontologists has discovered a fossilized giant basal tetrapod in Namibia. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Gaiasia jennyae, Giant Fossil, Namibia, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Giant Fossil Beans Unlock Secrets of Ancient Rainforests
August 25th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ancient fossil beans the size of modern limes may provide new insight into the evolution of today’s diverse Southeast Asian and Australian rainforests, according to Penn State researchers who identified the plants. The researchers determined that the fossils, which are among the largest seeds in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient Rainforests, Athira, Fossil Beans, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan
August 24th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Theropod dinosaurs are one of the most important large groups of dinosaurs, including well-known predators, such as Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, as well as modern birds. A variety of theropods are known from the Mesozoic Era, the age of the dinosaurs. Just as lions today are […]
WFS News: Half-a-billion-year-old slug reveals mollusc origins
August 17th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A half-a-billion-year-old spiny slug has shed light on the origins of animals like oysters and octopuses, researchers have said. Scientists, including experts from the University of Oxford, have discovered a new species of mollusc that lived 500 million years ago. The fossil, called Shishania aculeata, […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, mollusc origins, old slug, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News : Ammonites’ fate sealed by meteor strike that wiped out dinosaurs
June 29th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found The marine mollusks with coiled shells, one of paleontology’s great icons, flourished in Earth’s oceans for more than 350 million years until they died out during the same chance event that wiped out the […]
Posted in General Tags: ammonites, Athira, Dinosaur, meteor strike, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Shifts in marine community structures can predict future extinctions
June 26th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A study using foraminifera fossils suggests that shifts in marine community structures can predict future extinctions, highlighting the role of historical data in forecasting climate change impacts on biodiversity. For hundreds of millions of years, single-celled organisms known as foraminifera, which are microscopic and hard-shelled, […]
WFS News,Simpsonigobius, new species of fossil fish
June 17th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich groups of marine and freshwater fish in Europe. Spending most of their lives on the bottom of shallow waterbodies, they make substantial contributions to the functioning of many ecosystems. With the identification of a new genus […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, fossil fish, new species, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Simpsonigobius, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists found a pterosaur with vast wingspan
June 15th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Scientists studying a fossil of a flying reptile that excavated from a gravel pit have found it had a vast wingspan of 3.75m (12ft). The pterosaur was dug out from the floor of a quarry near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in June 2022. Scans of its wing […]
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