In the 19th century, Darwin’s most vocal scientific advocate was Thomas Henry Huxley, who is also remembered as a pioneer of the hypotheses that birds are living dinosaurs. He noticed several similarities of the skeleton of living birds and extinct dinosaurs, among them, a pointed portion of the anklebone projecting upwards onto the shank bone […]
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dinosaur-bird link
November 18th, 2015 
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No Comments »Oceanic microplate formation records the onset of India–Eurasia collision
November 15th, 2015 Riffin An international team of scientists has discovered the first oceanic microplate in the Indian Ocean–helping identify when the initial collision between India and Eurasia occurred, leading to the birth of the Himalayas. Although there are at least seven microplates known in the Pacific Ocean, this is the first ancient Indian Ocean microplate to be discovered. […]
Predatory Functional Morphology in Raptors
November 13th, 2015 Riffin Despite the ubiquity of raptors in terrestrial ecosystems, many aspects of their predatory behaviour remain poorly understood. Surprisingly little is known about the morphology of raptor talons and how they are employed during feeding behaviour. Talon size variation among digits can be used to distinguish families of raptors and is related to different techniques of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Functional Morphology, Predatory, Raptors, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Rat fossils of largest rat that ever existed
November 9th, 2015 Riffin Archaeologists with The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered fossils of seven giant rat species on East Timor, with the largest up to 10 times the size of modern rats. Dr Julien Louys of the ANU School of Culture, History and Language, who is helping lead the project said these are the largest known rats […]
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November 5th, 2015 Riffin Researchers have uncovered a fossil sea urchin that pushes back a fork in its family tree by 10 million years, according to a new study. A team from USC found the Eotiaris guadalupensis in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution from the Glass Mountains of west Texas, where it had been buried in a rock […]
Tyrannosaur Vs Tyrannosaur ?
November 3rd, 2015 Riffin A nasty little 66-million-year-old family secret has been leaked by a recently unearthed tyrannosaur bone. The bone has peculiar teeth marks that strongly suggest it was gnawed by another tyrannosaur. The find could be some of the best evidence yet that tyrannosaurs were not shy about eating their own kind. “We were out in Wyoming […]
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November 2nd, 2015 Riffin An undergraduate University of Alberta paleontology student has discovered an Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue. The discovery is shedding light on the convergent evolution of these dinosaurs with ostriches and emus relating to thermoregulation and is also tightening the linkages between dinosaurs and modern birds. “We now know what the plumage […]
Baby Dinosaur Fossil Airlifted Out of New Mexico Desert
October 31st, 2015 Riffin The National Guard recently airlifted a rare baby dinosaur fossil, estimated to be 70 million years old, out of “desert wilderness” in northwestern New Mexico, according to museum officials at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The baby fossil, which is nearly as big a rhinoceros, is of a Pentaceratops, “a five-horned […]
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October 29th, 2015 Riffin Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London together with colleagues from the USA, Russia and China, have discovered that forest fires across the globe were more common between 300 and 250 million years ago than they are today. This is thought to be due to higher level of oxygen […]
Ecosystems of the Pleistocene epoch
October 28th, 2015 Riffin For years, evolutionary biologists have wondered how ecosystems during the Pleistocene epoch survived despite the presence of many species of huge, hungry herbivores, such as mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths. Observations on modern elephants suggest that large concentrations of those animals could have essentially destroyed the environment, but that wasn’t the case. Now life […]
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