New research from North Carolina State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Linyi University has found evidence of original keratin and melanosome preservation in a 130-million-year-old Eoconfuciusornis specimen. The work extends the timeframe in which original molecules may preserve, and demonstrates the ability to distinguish between ancient microstructures in fossils. Eoconfuciusornis, crow-sized primitive birds […]
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WFS News: Keratin and melanosomes preserved in 130-million-year-old bird fossil Eoconfuciusornis
November 22nd, 2016 
Riffin WFS News: Asteroid impacts could create niches for early life
November 20th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life. Around 65 million years ago a massive asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico causing an impact so huge that the blast and subsequent knock-on […]
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No Comments »WFS News: This oviraptorosaur may have met its end in a Chinese slush pit
November 17th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The workmen were building a high school, blasting out the site with dynamite in the southern Chinese city of Ganzhou when they saw it: the newly exposed fossil of a small, child-sized dinosaur. It was well preserved despite the construction, and it struck a curious pose: head […]
Posted in General Tags: Chinese slush pit, oviraptorosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaurs’ rise was ‘more gradual’
November 15th, 2016 Riffin Researchers have discovered two small dinosaurs together with a lagerpetid, a group of animals that are recognized as precursors of dinosaurs. The discovery made in Brazil and reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on November 10 represents the first time that a dinosaur and a dinosaur precursor have ever been found together. The […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, more gradual, Riffin T Sajeev, rise, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Plate tectonics cannot explain dynamics of Earth and crust formation more than three billion years ago
November 10th, 2016 Riffin The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to 3 billion years ago, the theory isn’t sufficient in explaining the dynamics of Earth and crust formation before that point and through to the earliest […]
WFS News: Fossil clues to aftermath of dinosaur asteroid strike
November 7th, 2016 Riffin Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant–insect associations after the end-Cretaceous extinction Michael P. Donovan,, Ari Iglesias,, Peter Wilf,, Conrad C. Labandeira, & N. Rubén Cúneo The Southern Hemisphere may have provided biodiversity refugia after the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction. However, few extinction and recovery studies have been conducted in the terrestrial realm using well-dated macrofossil sites that […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: asteroid strike, Dinosaur, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Atom-by-atom growth chart for shells helps decode past climate
October 31st, 2016 Riffin For the first time scientists can see how the shells of tiny marine organisms grow atom-by-atom, a new study reports. The advance provides new insights into the mechanisms of biomineralization and will improve our understanding of environmental change in Earth’s past. Led by researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of Washington, […]
Fossilized dinosaur brain tissue identified for the first time : WFS News
October 28th, 2016 Riffin Researchers have identified the first known example of fossilised brain tissue in a dinosaur from Sussex. The tissues resemble those seen in modern crocodiles and birds. An unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter in Sussex, has been confirmed as the first example of fossilised brain tissue from a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaur brain, fossilized, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Qilinyu : A Fish fossil sheds light on jaw evolution
October 24th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A bottom-dwelling, mud-grubbing, armoured fish that swam in tropical seas 423 million years ago is fundamentally changing the understanding of the evolution of an indisputably indispensable anatomical feature: the jaw. Scientists have unearthed in China’s Yunnan province fossils of a primordial fish called Qilinyu rostrata that was about […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fish fossil, jaw evolution, Qilinyu, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Savannasaurus : New Australian sauropod
October 22nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum today announced the naming of Savannasaurus elliottorum, a new genus and species of dinosaur from western Queensland, Australia. The bones come from the Winton Formation, a geological deposit approximately 95 million years old. The paper naming the new dinosaur was published on […]
