New analyses of tiny fossil mammals from Glamorgan, South Wales are shedding light on the function and diets of our earliest ancestors, a team including researchers from the University of Southampton report today in the journal Nature. Mammals and their immediate ancestors from the Jurassic period (201-145 million years ago) developed new characteristics — such […]
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Jurassic mammals were picky eaters.
August 21st, 2014 
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No Comments »Prehistoric crocodilian diversity depends on sea temperature
August 20th, 2014 Riffin The ancestors of today’s crocodiles colonised the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new Anglo-French study which establishes a link between marine crocodilian diversity and the evolution of sea temperature over a period of more than 140 million years. The research, led by Dr Jeremy Martin from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: crocodilian diversity, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Hallucigenia Sparsa:worm-like fossil found
August 18th, 2014 Riffin One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found — a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its tail — has found its place in the evolutionary Tree of Life, definitively linking it with a group of modern animals for the first time. The animal, known as Hallucigenia due to […]
Caiuajara dobruskii:New pterosaur species found
August 16th, 2014 Riffin A flying reptile whose head was topped with a big bony crest shaped like the sail of a yacht swooped through the skies over Brazil roughly 90 million years ago. Scientists announced on Wednesday the remarkable discovery of about 50 fossilized skeletons of a creature called Caiuajara dobruskii, a type of flying reptile known as […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Caiuajara dobruskii, Pterosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »New species of pterosaur found in mass grave
August 15th, 2014 Riffin A rare stash of thousands of ancient bones found in Brazil has turned in a magnificent find: over 47 skeletons of a single, new species of Upper Cretaceous pterosaur. Discovered in an old lake deposit on the outskirts of Cruzeiro do Oeste in the southern state of Parana, the bones are unusual for two reasons: […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Pterosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Amber offers new views of a lost world
August 13th, 2014 Riffin 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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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 […]
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