Scientists are searching through a massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, and the effort is yielding fresh insights into ancient tropical insects and the world they inhabited. When the collection is fully curated, a task that will take many years, it will be the largest unbiased […]
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Amber offers new views of a lost world
August 13th, 2014 
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No Comments »Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered
August 11th, 2014 Riffin The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs could have been feathered. The new dinosaur, named Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus as it comes from a site called Kulinda […]
New way to study ground fractures
August 9th, 2014 Riffin Boise State University geophysics researchers have created a new way to study fractures by producing elastic waves, or vibrations, through using high-intensity light focused directly on the fracture itself. The new technique developed in the Physical Acoustics Lab at Boise State may help determine if there is a fluid, such as magma or water, or […]
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August 6th, 2014 Riffin Their scruffy beards weren’t ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to research from the University of Cincinnati, the famously fuzzy relatives of elephants liked living in Greater Cincinnati long before it was trendy – at the end of the last ice age. A […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mammoth, mastodon, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Giant earthquakes help predict volcanic eruptions
August 4th, 2014 Riffin Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier/Université de Savoie/IRD/IFSTTAR) and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot/IPGP), working in collaboration with Japanese researchers, have for the first time observed the response of Japanese volcanoes to seismic waves produced by the giant Tohoku-oki earthquake of 2011. Their […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, volcanic, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Oldest land-living animal from Gondwana found ?
August 3rd, 2014 Riffin A postdoctoral fellow from Wits University has discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. Dr Robert Gess, from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits, discovered the 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion from rocks of the Devonian Witteberg Group near Grahamstown. This unique specimen, which is a new species, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Gondwana, oldest, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Oldest beetle found in amber
August 1st, 2014 Riffin An international team of scientists from Spain, France, and the U.S. has discovered and described a rove beetle that is the oldest definitive member of the tribe Omaliini that has ever been found in amber. The discovery and description were made possible through the use of the propagation phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron imaging technique, which allows […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Amber, Oldest beetle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaurs fell victim to perfect storm of events
July 30th, 2014 Riffin Dinosaurs might have survived the asteroid strike that wiped them out if it had taken place slightly earlier or later in history, scientists say. A fresh study using up-to-date fossil records and improved analytical tools has helped palaeontologists to build a new narrative of the prehistoric creatures’ demise, some 66 million years ago. They found […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Leaf-mining insects destroyed with the dinosaurs, others quickly appeared
July 27th, 2014 Riffin After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs’ extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely disappeared. Only a million years later, at Mexican Hat, in southeastern Montana, fossil leaves show diverse leaf-mining traces from new insects that were not present during […]
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PRESENCE OF MIOCENE OYSTERS: RISE AND FALL OF A PALEO-ESTUARY IN THE EAST COAST OF INDIA
July 26th, 2014 Riffin Living oysters of Crassostrea Sp. are abundantly found on the east coast of peninsular India. Most of the living Crassostrea sp. is reported from Athankarai estuary near mandapam. The primary object of this study is to report the occurrence of fossils of Crassostrea sp. belonging to mio-pliocene outcrops from an ephemeral stream channel of Nambiyar/Thoppuvila […]
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