@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco’s Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests some species of plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater. Plesiosaurs, first […]
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WFS News: Some species of Plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater
August 3rd, 2022 
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No Comments »WFS News: Mosasaurus: Apex ocean predator of the dinosaur age
July 1st, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Mosasaurus was a ferocious predator in the ancient oceans of the Cretaceous period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago). While dinosaurs dominated the land, Mosasaurus used its long tail and stumpy, paddle-like limbs to cruise through the water, devouring all kinds of prey with its massive jaws and sharp, cone-shaped teeth. Mosasaurus is one genus, […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Scientists Find Fossil Of Prehistoric Bear-Dog
June 20th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. A group of scientists has found a fossilised lower jaw of a giant creature that one roamed the Earth. Named Tartarocyon cazanavei, it lived in what is now France – between 12.8 and 12 million years ago. Also known as the bear-dog, the fossilised body part of the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Bear-Dog, fossil, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms
June 13th, 2022 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, Athira For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded could give us hints about how active they were and what their everyday lives were like, but the methods to determine […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Chemical clues, dinosaur metabolisms, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tanis: Fossil found of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike
May 29th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it’s not just their exquisite condition that’s turning heads – […]
Posted in General Tags: Asteroid impact, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal
April 27th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published today in AGU Advances, AGU’s journal for high-impact, open-access research and commentary across the Earth and space sciences. These […]
WFS News: Scientists claim they’ve found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
April 11th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Athira Scientists say that the perfectly preserved leg of a Thescelosaurus dinosaur, complete with scaly skin, can be dated back to the mass extinction event because of the presence of debris from the impact, the BBC said. It is widely believed that when the 7.5 mile-wide asteroid, approximately the size of […]
Posted in General Tags: asteroid, Athira Riffin, Dinosaur, mass extinction, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Well-preserved new dinosaur fossil found in Alberta
April 8th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev six years after miners had discovered it by accident, the best preserved dinosaur fossil was was unveiled at Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. Dinosaur fossils are not more than a rock for the casual observers, before they are put into the museum. However, the observers this time […]
Posted in General Tags: Alberta, Dinosaur Fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Forget mammoths: These researchers are exploring bringing back the extinct Christmas Island rat.
March 18th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in the 1990s, de-extinction efforts have focused on grand animals with mythical stature, but in a paper published March 9 in the journal Current Biology, […]
Posted in General Tags: mammoths, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees
March 8th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Conca Dellà Museum (MCD), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) have described the new species of titanosaur dinosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei from the remains excavated at the Orcau-1 […]
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