Posts Tagged ‘Russel T Sajeev’

WFS News: Correlative microscopy of the constituents of a dinosaur rib fossil and hosting mudstone: Implications on diagenesis and fossil preservation

 @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Citation: Kim J-K, Kwon Y-E, Lee S-G, Kim C-Y, Kim J-G, Huh M, et al. (2017) Correlative microscopy of the constituents of a dinosaur rib fossil and hosting mudstone: Implications on diagenesis and fossil preservation. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186600 Editor: Dong Hoon Shin, Seoul National University College of Medicine, […]

WFS News: Patterns of divergence in the morphology of ceratopsian dinosaurs: sympatry is not a driver of ornament evolution

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The elaborate frills and horns of a group of dinosaurs including Triceratops and Styracosaurus did not evolve to help species recognise each other, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London. It has been suggested that different species that live in the same location may evolve features […]

WFS News: A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Citation: Das AJ, Murmann DC, Cohrn K, Raskar R (2017) A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0179264. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179264 Editor: Pasquale Raia, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, ITALY The field of paleontology has transformed in the last few years as […]

WFS News: Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth’s atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it. The study by an international team of institutions including Princeton University found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 […]

WFS News: Baby tyrannosaur fossil unearthed in Montana

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For now, there are just a few things researchers and students at the University of Kansas want people to dig about the new dinosaur they recently excavated in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. First off, it’s a “fabulous” complete section of the upper jaw with all of its teeth […]

WFS News: EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA

@WFS,World fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA ( Riffin T Sajeev Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-293786,Volume 49,Issue 6,Pages 388 T219. Challenges in Tectonics:Publisher:Geological Society of America (GSA) :https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/293786 Abstract: The eastern coastal plains of the Indian peninsula are studied meagerly based […]

WFS facts: dating of fossils

 @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev  So, how do we know how old a fossil is? There are two main methods determining a fossils age, relative dating and absolute dating. Relative dating is used to determine a fossils approximate age by comparing it to similar rocks and fossils of known ages. Absolute dating is used to […]

WFS News:60-year-old paleontological mystery of a ‘phantom’ dicynodont

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate ‘phantom’ fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land […]

WFS News: Five New Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica is one of the harshest environments on the planet. As the coldest, driest continent, it harbors a world of extremes. The powerful katabatic winds that rush from the polar plateau down the steep, vertical drops around the continent’s coast can stir up turbulent snowstorms lasting days or weeks, and the […]

WFS News: Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A UNLV scientist has discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist as far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’s mantle. Groundbreaking research by UNLV geoscientist Oliver Tschauner and colleagues found diamonds pushed up from the Earth’s interior had traces of unique crystallized water […]