Earth’s earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles. A new study has found that Purgatorius, a small mammal that lived on a diet of fruit and insects, was a tree dweller. Paleontologists made the discovery by analyzing 65-million-year-old ankle bones collected […]
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Purgatorius, an early primate
January 20th, 2015 
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No Comments »Ancient fossils reveal rise in parasitic infections due to climate change
January 18th, 2015 Riffin When seeking clues about the future effects of possible climate change, sometimes scientists look to the past. Now, a paleobiologist from the University of Missouri has found indications of a greater risk of parasitic infection due to climate change in ancient mollusk fossils. His study of clams from the Holocene Epoch (that began 11,700 years […]
Fossil found by boy fills gap in reptile evolution
January 14th, 2015 Riffin A fossil of a lizard-like creature found by a boy on a Prince Edward Island beach is a new species and the only reptile in the world ever found from its time, 300 million years ago, a new study shows. The fossilized species has been named Erpetonyx arsenaultorum after the family of Michael Arsenault of Prince […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, reptile evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Archive : Only second Jurassic dinosaur ever found in Antarctica
January 11th, 2015 Riffin A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive plant-eating primitive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago. The recently published description of the new dinosaur is based on partial foot, leg and ankle bones found on Mt. Kirkpatrick near the […]
WFS Dinosaur Diary: “Eotyrannus”
January 4th, 2015 Riffin Eotyrannus (meaning “dawn tyrant”) was a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. The remains (MIWG1997.550), consisting of assorted skull, axial skeleton and appendicular skeleton elements, from a juvenile or subadult, found in […]
Earth grow a new layer under an Icelandic volcano
December 30th, 2014 Riffin New research into an Icelandic eruption has shed light on how the Earth’s crust forms, according to a paper published today in Nature. When the Bárðarbunga volcano, which is buried beneath Iceland’s Vatnajökull ice cap, reawakened in August 2014, scientists had a rare opportunity to monitor how the magma flowed through cracks in the […]
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December 22nd, 2014 Riffin A team of scientists, led by the University of Toronto’s Barbara Sherwood Lollar, has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometres beneath Earth’s surface in rock fractures in Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia. Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to […]
Conotubus fossils provide new clues about fossil formation
December 19th, 2014 Riffin A new study from University of Missouri and Virginia Tech researchers is challenging accepted ideas about how ancient soft-bodied organisms become part of the fossil record. Findings suggest that bacteria involved in the decay of those organisms play an active role in how fossils are formed — often in a matter of just a few […]
Shortening tails gave early birds a leg up
December 16th, 2014 Riffin A radical shortening of their bony tails over 100 million years ago enabled the earliest birds to develop versatile legs that gave them an evolutionary edge, a new study shows. A team led by Oxford University scientists examined fossils of the earliest birds from the Cretaceous Period, 145-66 million years ago, when early birds, such […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Shortening tails, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Bridgmanite:Earth’s most abundant mineral
December 14th, 2014 Riffin An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth. And in doing so, a team of scientists led by Oliver Tschauner, a mineralogist at the University of Las Vegas, clarified the definition of the […]
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