@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossil of a predator fish that existed more than 100 million years ago has been discovered in north-west Queensland. Experts believe it is one Australia’s most intact fossils of the Cooyoo australis fish — a large carnivore that once swam Queensland’s inland Eromanga Sea. The rare find was stumbled […]
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WFS News: Australia’s most intact Cooyoo australis fossil discovered in Richmond with specimen in its belly
WFS News: Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago
@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods — relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders — dominated the seas 470 million years ago. Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large “free-swimming” […]
WFS News: Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago
@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the Ediacaran Period some 550 million years ago. The […]
WFS News: 2-Billion-Year-Old Microbe Fossils found
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs. Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of primitive bacteria. These ancient microbes are likely cyanobacteria, but they are unusually large and have weird shapes protruding from them, […]
WFS News: Palaeontologists found Fossil algae, dating from 541 million years ago
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in China, this 541-million-year-old fossil is the first and oldest green […]
WFS News: Paleontologists found a 500 Million Years Old fossils showcasing this three-eyed predator.
@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev What had spiny claws protruding from its mouth, sported a body shaped like a toilet brush and looked as though it slithered off the cover of a sci-fi novel? An ocean predator from the Cambrian period known as Stanleycaris hirpex. Newfound fossils of the bizarre creature are […]
WFS News: Sawfish fossils suggest teeth likely evolved from body scales in ancient fish
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates and became adapted for eating — an idea known as the “outside-in” hypothesis? Or did they evolve independent of scales, originating deep within the oral cavity […]
WFS News: How Soft tissues fossilized?
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are ‘hard’ tissues, such as bone, shells or teeth, some rare sites around the world had unique conditions which allowed minerals to fossilise soft parts […]
WFS News: Palaeotanyrhina exophthalma,A fossil insect with 360 degree vision
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev While prehistoric insects encased in amber certainly are fascinating, they usually don’t look all that different from today’s insects. A newly discovered one, however, is so bizarre that it has been placed in its own unique family. Measuring just over 5 mm long, the insect was found in […]
WFS News: Pachycormus: A prehistoric predator discovered in a farm field.
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been discovered in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire, England. Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed of English Longhorn cattle, the fossils are stunningly well preserved. Despite being approximately 183-million-year-old, […]