@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify […]
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WFS News: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity
October 17th, 2018 
Riffin WFS News: Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel
October 13th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The oldest flying squirrel fossil ever found has unearthed new insight on the origin and evolution of these airborne animals. Writing in the open-access journal eLife, researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) in Barcelona, Spain, described the 11.6-million-year-old fossil, which was discovered in Can Mata […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa
October 8th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four metres […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Earliest Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, South Africa, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Description of climate-envelope models
October 7th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Climate-envelope models attempt to capture the climatic conditions that constrain the potential niche of a species, and use them to predict the probability of occurrence of species in an area. There are many different types of climate-envelope models [1], distinguished among other things by the type of data […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: climate-envelope models, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Plate tectonics may have been active on Earth since its origin
October 5th, 2018 Riffin A new study suggests that plate tectonics — a scientific theory that divides Earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock — could have been active from the planet’s very beginning. The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: active, Earth, helium, neon, Origin, plate, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonics, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, year No Comments »WFS News: Fossil of Oldest Flowering Tree in North America Discovered
October 1st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev During the late Cretaceous period, northeastern Utah was home to pterosaurs, duck-billed dinosaurs and fearsome therizinosaurs with claws that would put Edward Scissorhands to shame. Now, add to that list giant flowering trees. A fossil log found in the Mancos Shale of Utah reveals that huge angiosperms were part […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil, Oldest Flowering Tree, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal
September 27th, 2018 Riffin Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and was oval shaped with rib-like […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animal, dickinsonia, eratly, fat, mammal, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ancient ‘Alien’ Wasp Hijacked Fly Pupae, Ate the Flies Inside
September 23rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized fly pupae are about as exciting to look at as a handful of dingy, stale Rice Krispies. But despite their humdrum appearance, fossil pupae can hold fascinating secrets inside; in some cases, they preserve deadly examples of insect parasitism. Scientists recently investigated hundreds of fossil pupae — […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Alien, Pupae, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Wasp, WFS, WFS News: Ancient, world fossil society No Comments »Earth’s oldest animals formed complex communities
September 19th, 2018 Riffin A new analysis is shedding light on Earth’s first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota. Ediacaran fossils have a slightly bizarre appearance not shared by any modern animal groups. For decades, researchers believed these enigmatic fossils were ecologically simple. However, borrowing a method from modern ecology — fitting species to relative abundance distributions — […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animals, biota, communities, complex, Earth, Ediacara, fossils, macroscopic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
September 17th, 2018 Riffin Analysis of bones, from what was once the world’s largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought — according to a study published today, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances. A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL […]
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