@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev University of Delaware professor Jessica Warren and colleagues from Stanford University, Oxford University and University of Pennsylvania, reported new data that material size-effects matter in plate tectonics. Plate tectonics, the way the Earth’s plates move apart and come back together, has been used since the 1960s to explain […]
Posts Tagged ‘Russel T Sajeev’
WFS News: Trilobite-like arthropod Agnostus pisiformis.
September 16th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev With the help of an artist, a geology professor at Lund University in Sweden has figuratively speaking breathed life into one of science’s most well-known fossil species; Agnostus pisiformis. The trilobite-like arthropod lived in huge numbers in Scandinavia a half-billion years ago. Today, this extinct species provides important […]
WFS News: fossils shed light animal evolution on Earth
September 12th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including palaeontologist from The University of Manchester, found a new set of trace fossils left by some of the first […]
EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA
September 11th, 2017
Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 388-12: EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA ( ABSTRACT) Riffin T Sajeev Wednesday, 25 October 201709:00 AM – 06:30 PM Washington State Convention Center – Halls 4EF The […]
WFS Facts: Toba catastrophe theory
September 7th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev According to the Toba catastrophe theory, modern human evolution was affected by a recent, large volcanic event. Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages diverged from the hominid stem-line, the human line produced a variety of human species. According to the […]
WFS News: ‘Living fossil fish’ not as old as we thought
September 5th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Polypterids are weird and puzzling African fish that have perplexed biologists since they were discovered during Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in the late 1700s. Often called living fossils, these eel-like misfits have lungs and fleshy pectoral fins, bony plates and thick scales reminiscent of ancient fossil fish, and […]
WFS News: Machine learning predicts laboratory earthquakes
September 4th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before the fault fails. “At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip,” […]
Forensic science techniques help discover new molecular fossils
September 1st, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers in Japan and China believe they have found new molecular fossils of archaea using a method of analysis commonly used in forensic science. According to a system designed by microbiologist Carl Woese, there are three domains of life on Earth — Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota. To date, […]
WFS News: Construction crew finds rare triceratops fossil
August 30th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,Wold Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Construction crews working on Thornton’s new Public Safety Facility uncovered a rare dinosaur fossil. Crews working at the site at 132nd Avenue and Quebec Street made uncovered what appeared to be a triceratops skull and skeleton on Friday. Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science went to the […]
Lagenanectes richterae: Ancient sea reptile found in Germany
August 29th, 2017
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A previously unrecognized 132 million-year-old fossilized sea monster from northern Germany has been identified by an international team of researchers. Findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The bizarre sea creature was a plesiosaur, an extinct long-necked aquatic reptile resembling the popular image of the Loch Ness […]



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