@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For decades, scientists have wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like miniature dinosaurs, be about the size of a chicken, and walk on two legs. A Virginia Tech paleobiologist’s latest discovery of Teleocrater rhadinus, however, has overturned popular predictions. This […]
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WFS News: oldest known member of the phytosaurs found in China
April 11th, 2017 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs — an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related crocodylians and lived during the Triassic Period, approximately 250 million years ago to 200 […]
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No Comments »WFS News: 3-D map of Earth’s interior
April 2nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Because of Earth’s layered composition, scientists have often compared the basic arrangement of its interior to that of an onion. There’s the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core. […]
WFS News: Kimberley fossil tracks are Australia’s ‘Jurassic Park’
March 30th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have described a remarkable collection of dinosaur tracks on beaches in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. More than 20 different types of fossil footmarks have been captured in sandstone rock.Some are over 1.5m in size, recording the movement of sauropods – the giant beasts with long […]
Paleozoic echinoderm hangover: Waking up in the Triassic
March 17th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The end-Paleozoic witnessed the most devastating mass extinction in Earth’s history so far, killing the majority of species and profoundly shaping the evolutionary history of the survivors. Echinoderms are among the marine invertebrates that suffered the most severe losses at the end-Permian extinction. At least that was the […]
Posted in General Tags: Paleozoic echinoderm, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Triassic, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba
March 15th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba. The find helps scientists better understand the evolution and diversity of ancient seed plants. The fossils, from […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ginkgo biloba, Paleontologists, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Sparalepis tingi gen : A fish may have evolved prior to the ‘Age of Fish’
March 10th, 2017 Riffin Key: WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An ancient fish species with unusual scales and teeth from the Kuanti Formation in southern China may have evolved prior to the “Age of Fish,” according to a study published March 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Brian Choo from Flinders University, Australia, and […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Age of Fish, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sparalepis tingi gen, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: One of greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to Earth’s warming
March 7th, 2017 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species disappeared and, up until now, scientists have linked this extinction to a significant rise in Earth temperatures. […]
WFS News: World’s oldest fossils found in Canada?
March 3rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev WFS News: World’s oldest fossils found in Canada? Scientists say they have found the world’s oldest fossils, thought to have formed between 3.77bn and 4.28bn years ago. Comprised of tiny tubes and filaments made of an iron oxide known as haematite, the microfossils are believed to be the […]
WFS News: Tectonic Shift in Early Earth’s Carbon
February 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A study of tiny mineral ‘inclusions’ within diamonds from Botswana has shown that diamond crystals can take billions of years to grow. One diamond was found to contain silicate material that formed 2.3 billion years ago in its interior and a 250 million-year-old garnet crystal towards its outer […]
