A new study shown that meteorite impacts on ancient oceans may have created nucleobases and amino acids. Researchers from Tohoku University, National Institute for Materials Science and Hiroshima University discovered this after conducting impact experiments simulating a meteorite hitting an ancient ocean. With precise analysis of the products recovered after impacts, the team found the […]
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Montsechia, first aquatic angiosperm ?
August 18th, 2015 
Riffin Indiana University paleobotanist David Dilcher and colleagues in Europe have identified a 125 million- to 130 million-year-old freshwater plant as one of earliest flowering plants on Earth. The finding, reported Aug. 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represents a major change in the presumed form of one of the planet’s earliest […]
How do continents break up?
August 16th, 2015 Riffin When the western part of the super-continent Gondwana broke up around 130 Million years ago, today’s Africa and South-America started to separate and the South Atlantic was born. It is commonly assumed that enormous masses of magma ascended from the deep mantle up to higher levels, and that this hot mantle plume (the Tristan mantle […]
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No Comments »Ichibengops : pre-mammal fossils from Zambia
August 14th, 2015 Riffin Scientists at The Field Museum have identified a new species of pre-mammal in what is now Zambia. Thanks to a unique groove on the animal’s upper jaw, it was dubbed Ichibengops (Itchy-BEN-gops), which combines the local Bemba word for scar (ichibenga), and the common Greek suffix for face (ops). Put simply: Scarface. Believed to be […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossils, Ichibengops, pre-mammal, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society, Zambia No Comments »Big dinosaur discoveries in tiny toothy packages
August 12th, 2015 Riffin Researchers have examined one of the smallest parts of the fossil record–theropod teeth–to shed light on the evolution of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. Findings published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica have effectively quadrupled the dinosaur diversity in the area of study, eight localities from Treviño County, Huesca and Lerida–including the exceptional […]
Dinosaur fossil resembling the ‘loch ness myth’ found in Alaska
August 8th, 2015 riffin Researchers in Alaska have uncovered the bones of a prehistoric marine reptile dating back 70 million years. This is the first time an elasmosaur has ever been unearthed in this state. Its vertebrae were discovered embedded in an eroding cliff. Elasmosaurs had extremely long necks, small heads and paddle-shaped limbs for swimming. There are many theories […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: cretaceous, Elasmosaur, riffin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel, Russel T Sajeev, Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »fastest mammal evolution in Jurassic period
August 4th, 2015 Riffin Mammals were evolving up to ten times faster in the middle of the Jurassic than they were at the end of the period, coinciding with an explosion of new adaptations, new research shows. Early mammals lived alongside the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era (252-66 million years ago). They were once thought to be exclusively small […]
Trajectory of Nepal earthquake
August 2nd, 2015 Riffin Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have accurately mapped out the movement of the devastating 7.8-magnitude Nepal earthquake that killed over 9,000 and injured over 23,000 people. Scientists have determined that the earthquake was a rupture consisting of three different stages. The study could help a rapidly growing region understand its […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Nepal earthquake, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Trajectory, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Most ancient pinworm yet found ?
July 30th, 2015 Riffin An egg much smaller than a common grain of sand and found in a tiny piece of fossilized dung has helped scientists identify a pinworm that lived 240 million years ago.It is believed to be the most ancient pinworm yet found in the fossil record. The discovery confirms that herbivorous cynodonts — the ancestors of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ancient pinworm, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ancient marine ecosystem uncovered
July 29th, 2015 Riffin Hidden secrets about life in Somerset 190 million years ago have been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol and the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) in a new study of some remarkable fossils. Thanks to exceptional conditions of preservation, a whole marine ecosystem has been uncovered — and yet it was […]
