@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev ANATOMY Syntarsus was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two long legs. This predator was about 10 feet long (3 m) and weighed about 60-70 pounds. It had light, hollow bones, a long, pointed head with dozens of small, serrated teeth, and a long neck. Syntarsus had […]
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WFS News: Live birth in an archosauromorph reptile
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A remarkable 250 million-year-old “terrible-headed lizard” fossil found in China shows an embryo inside the mother — clear evidence for live birth. Head of The University of Queensland’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and co-author Professor Jonathan Aitchison said the fossil unexpectedly provided the first evidence for […]
WFS News: How old were the oldest dinosaurs?
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev How old were the oldest dinosaurs? This question remains largely unanswered. The natural life span of these long-extinct giants is of interest to scientists, in combination with questions regarding how fast they could grow and how they could obtain sufficient nutrients from their habitat. Palaeontologists at the University […]
WFS News: Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute. The researchers believe that massive amounts of stratospheric soot ejected from rocks following […]
WFS News: Researchers confirm the existence of a ‘lost continent’ under Mauritius
@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have confirmed the existence of a “lost continent” under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that was left-over by the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana, which started about 200 million years ago. The piece of crust, which was subsequently covered by young lava during volcanic eruptions […]
WFS News: Dinosaur (Lufengosaurus) rib bones reveal remnants of 195-million-year-old protein
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Is fossilized rock all that remains when a dinosaur decomposes? New research from scientists at the University […]
WFS News:Exceptionally preserved fossilized mantle of a vampyropod
@WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A trove of exceptionally preserved Jurassic marine fossils discovered in Canada, rare for recording soft-bodied species that normally don’t fossilize, is expanding scientists’ view of the rich marine life of the period. The preservation of the fossils — which include soft body parts as well as shells and […]
WFS News: mio-pliocene Oysters from East coast of India
WFS News: mio-pliocene Oysters from East coast of India @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Crassostrea Sp. Image copyright @WFS,world Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Crassostrea Sp. Image copyright @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin […]
Pyritized in situ trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For the past two years, Western Illinois University Assistant Professor of Geology Thomas Hegna has been part of a three-member team conducting research on what are believed to be the first-ever discovered trilobite eggs paired with a fossil of the segmented creature. The ancient eggs, believed to be […]
WFS News: 80 MYO dinosaur collagen confirmed
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Utilizing the most rigorous testing methods to date, researchers from North Carolina State University have isolated additional collagen peptides from an 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus. The work lends further support to the idea that organic molecules can persist in specimens tens of millions of years longer than originally believed and […]