@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long pondered how rocky bodies in the solar system — including our own Earth — got their metal cores. According to research conducted by The University of Texas at Austin, evidence points to the downwards percolation of molten metal toward the center of the planet through […]
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WFS News: How metallic cores of rocky planets formed
January 6th, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Origin of unique respiratory system of birds and dinosaurs
January 4th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev “The respiratory organs of vertebrates exhibit a tremendous degree of diversity, but the lung-air sac system of birds is truly unique among extant species,” says Dr. Markus Lambertz from the Institute for Zoology at the University of Bonn in Germany. Air sacs are bellows-like protrusions of the lung, […]
Posted in General Tags: birds, dinosaurs, Origin, respiratory system, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, unique, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Evolution of bipedalism in ancient dinosaur ancestors
January 3rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have developed a new theory to explain why the ancient ancestors of dinosaurs stopped moving about on all fours and rose up on just their two hind legs. Bipedalism in dinosaurs was inherited from ancient and much smaller proto-dinosaurs. The trick to […]
Posted in General Tags: ancestors, bipedalism, Dinosaur, Evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Dinofact: Eotyrannus
January 1st, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Name:Eotyrannus (Greek for “dawn tyrant”); pronounced EE-oh-tih-RAN-us Habitat:Woodlands of Western Europe Historical Period:Early Cretaceous (125-120 million years ago) Size and Weight:About 15 feet long and 300-500 pounds Diet:Meat Distinguishing Characteristics:Small size; relatively long arms with grasping hands About Eotyrannus The tiny tyrannosaur Eotyrannus lived during the early […]
Posted in General Tags: Dinofact, Eotyrannus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Como Bluff:The Dinosaur Graveyard
December 29th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Como Bluff is a long ridge with views of sagebrush prairie for as far as the eye can see. It extends roughly east-west, and is about 10 miles long and 1 mile wide. Geologically, the ridge is one limb of an anticline, formed as a result of the […]
Posted in General Tags: Como Bluff, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, The Dinosaur Graveyard, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Tick with dinosaur blood found in amber fossil
December 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In a discovery which is eerily similar to the opening scenes of Jurassic Park, experts found the fossilised blood sucking parasite trapped in amber. The insect is actually a newly discovered species of tick, which has been called Deinocroton draculi or “Dracula’s terrible tick”, and would have fed […]
Posted in General Tags: amber fossil, Dinosaur blood, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tick, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth
December 26th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Yale-led research team has discovered a cache of embryo-like microfossils in northern Mongolia that may shed light on questions about the long-ago shift from microbes to animals on Earth. Called the Khesen Formation, the site is one of the most significant for early Earth fossils since the […]
WFS News: Ancient dolphin species Urkudelphis chawpipacha discovered.
December 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new dolphin species likely from the Oligocene was discovered and described in Ecuador, according to a study published December 20, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yoshihiro Tanaka from the Osaka Museum of Natural History, Japan, and colleagues. Many marine fossils described in previous research […]
WFS News: Habelia optata, A 508-million-year-old sea predator
December 23rd, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto have entirely revisited a tiny yet exceptionally fierce ancient sea creature called Habelia optata that has confounded scientists since it was first discovered more than a century ago. The research […]
WFS News: Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago
December 21st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The world’s oldest algae fossils are a billion years old, according to a new analysis by earth scientists at McGill University. Based on this finding, the researchers also estimate that the basis for photosynthesis in today’s plants was set in place 1.25 billion years ago. The study, published […]
