The Earth’s building blocks seem to be built from ‘pretty normal’ ingredients, according to researchers working with the world’s most powerful telescopes. Scientists have measured the compositions of 18 different planetary systems from up to 456 light years away and compared them to ours, and found that many elements are present in similar proportions to those found on Earth. This will have implications for finding Earth-like bodies elsewhere.
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Study of material surrounding distant stars shows that Earth’s ingredients are pretty normal
August 24th, 2018 
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No Comments »Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks
August 22nd, 2018 Riffin Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada — the oldest rock formation known on Earth — probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet’s nascent crust. The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: bombardment, Earth, felsic, meteorite, Riffin T Sajeev, Rocks, Russel T Sajeev, silica, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »99-million-year-old beetle trapped in amber served as pollinator to evergreen cycads
August 19th, 2018 Riffin Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen gymnosperms, known as cycads, may have been the first insect-pollinated plants. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 16 have uncovered […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Amber, beetle, evergreen, flowering, pollinator, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Scientists solve the mystery behind the origin of skeletons!!!
August 2nd, 2018 Riffin Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mystery, Origin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Scientists, skeletons, vertibra, vertibrates, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, x-rays No Comments »Sound waves reveal enormous diamond cache deep in Earth’s interior
August 1st, 2018 Riffin Sound waves reveal a surprisingly large diamond cache deep in Earth’s interior, researchers report.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: diamond, Earth, interior, Mantle, minerals, olivine, Riffin T Sajeev, Rocks, Russel T Sajeev, sound, waves, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Glaciers in East Antarctica also ‘imperiled’ by climate change
July 30th, 2018 Riffin Source:University of California – Irvine A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level. In a paper published this week in the American […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Antarctica, climate change, glaciers, imperiled, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever
July 25th, 2018 Riffin The dinosaur foot known as ‘Bigfoot,’ described in a new scientific paper recently published in the open-access journal PeerJ — the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, was excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, with Anthony Maltese, lead author of the study, as member of the crew. After detailed preparation and study, Maltese and his international team of researchers identified it as belonging to an animal very closely related to Brachiosaurus.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: big, Dinosaur, foot, journal, life, Paleontology, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »The Earth’s youngest banded iron formation discovered.
July 24th, 2018 Riffin The discovery of Earth’s youngest-ever banded iron formation is changing how scientists understand the evolution of complex life.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Banded, BIF, cambrian, Chemocline, China, Formation, geochemical, Iron, precambrian, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Western, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Earth’s ancient biosphere deciphered using prehistoric lake deposits.
July 23rd, 2018 Riffin A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4-billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval leading up to the emergence of animal life.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient, biosphere, deposits, Earth, evaporative, lake, ontario, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Curious armoured dinosaur fossil discovered in Utah!!!!
July 22nd, 2018 Riffin Fossils of a new genus and species of an ankylosaurid dinosaur — Akainacephalus johnsoni — have been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA, and are revealing new details about the diversity and evolution of this group of armored dinosaurs. The research indicates that the defining features of Akainacephalus — the spiky bony armor covering the skull and snout — align more closely with Asian ankylosaurids than other North American Late Cretaceous ankylosaurid dinosaurs.
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