Researchers from North Carolina State University have confirmed that blood vessel-like structures found in an 80 million-year-old hadrosaur fossil are original to the animal, and not biofilm or other contaminants. Their findings add to the growing body of evidence that structures like blood vessels and cells can persist over millions of years, and the data […]
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Original blood vessels in hadrosaur fossil
December 3rd, 2015 
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No Comments »First fossil peaches discovered in southwest China
December 2nd, 2015 Riffin The sweet, juicy peaches we love today might have been a popular snack long before modern humans arrived on the scene.Scientists have found eight well-preserved fossilized peach endocarps, or pits, in southwest China dating back more than two and a half million years. Despite their age, the fossils appear nearly identical to modern peach pits. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil peaches, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Sefapanosaurus — SA’s new Sesotho dinosaur
December 1st, 2015 Riffin South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200-million-year-old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word “sefapano.” The researchers from South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), and from the Argentinian Museo de La Plata and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio made […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sefapanosaurus, Sesotho dinosaur, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Mystery of how snakes lost their legs solved by reptile fossil
November 30th, 2015 Riffin Fresh analysis of a reptile fossil is helping scientists solve an evolutionary puzzle — how snakes lost their limbs. The 90 million-year-old skull is giving researchers vital clues about how snakes evolved. Comparisons between CT scans of the fossil and modern reptiles indicate that snakes lost their legs when their ancestors evolved to live and […]
Egg Shell porosity and Nesting in Dinosaurs
November 29th, 2015 Riffin Extinct archosaurs’ eggshell porosity may be used as a proxy for predicting covered or exposed nest types, according to a study published November 25, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kohei Tanaka from the University of Calgary and colleagues. Knowledge about dinosaur nests may provide insight into the evolution of nesting and reproductive […]
Stretchy slabs found in the deep Earth
November 27th, 2015 Riffin A new study suggests that the common belief that the Earth’s rigid tectonic plates stay strong when they slide under another plate, known as subduction, may not be universal. Typically during subduction, plates slide down at a constant rate into the warmer, less-dense mantle at a fairly steep angle. However, in a process called flat-slab […]
first occurrence of a Dimetrodon fossil in Canada
November 25th, 2015 Riffin A “dinosaur” fossil originally discovered on Prince Edward Island has been shown to have steak knife-like teeth, and researchers from U of T Mississauga, Carleton University and the Royal Ontario Museum have changed its name to Dimetrodon borealis–marking the first occurrence of a Dimetrodon fossil in Canada. “It’s really exciting to discover that the detailed […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Canada, Dimetrodon, first occurrence, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Intermediate Fossil Feathers Found
November 22nd, 2015 Riffin A piece of amber formed of tree sap from 100 million years ago has preserved crucial evidence of feather evolution. Evolution has long predicted the evolution of birds from reptiles, and recent discoveries of feathered dinosaurs has proved that model correct. However, the dinosaurs feathers found to date have been primitive in form, while bird […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossil Feathers, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tyrannosaurus Could Open Jaw Really Wide ?
November 21st, 2015 Riffin Tyrannosaurus rex and at least one other carnivorous dinosaur were capable of opening their jaws up to 90 degrees. Plant-eating dinosaurs, on the other hand, were limited to a narrower jaw gape, suggesting that feeding style and diet of dinosaurs were closely linked to how wide they could open their mouths. Top 10 Largest Dinosaurs […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Jaw, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tyrannosaurus, WFS, WorldFossil Society No Comments »Fossil Forests Discovered in the Arctic
November 20th, 2015 Riffin What did some of the first trees on Earth look like? Earth scientists from Cardiff University digging around in Arctic Norway are closing in on an answer. And that answer is: weirdly familiar. Fossilized stumps from a forest dating back 380 million years indicate that these trees must have resembled palm trees covered in fern-like […]
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