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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PRESENCE OF MIOCENE OYSTERS: RISE AND FALL OF A PALEO-ESTUARY IN THE EAST COAST OF INDIA
July 26th, 2014 
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No Comments »The bend in the Appalachian mountain chain is finally explained
July 24th, 2014 Riffin The 1500 mile Appalachian mountain chain runs along a nearly straight line from Alabama to Newfoundland — except for a curious bend in Pennsylvania and New York State. Researchers from the College of New Jersey and the University of Rochester now know what caused that bend — a dense, underground block of rigid, volcanic rock […]
Jeju Island, Korea is a live volcano
July 23rd, 2014 Riffin In Jeju, Korea, a place emerging as a world-famous vacation spot with natural tourism resources, a recent study revealed a volcanic eruption occurred on the island. The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) indicated that there are the traces that indicated that a recent volcanic eruption was evident 5,000 years ago. This is […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Jeju Island, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Volcano, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil of predators brain discovered
July 22nd, 2014 Riffin An international team of paleontologists has identified the exquisitely preserved brain in the fossil of one of the world’s first known predators that lived in the Lower Cambrian, about 520 million years ago. The discovery revealed a brain that is surprisingly simple and less complex than those known from fossils of some of the animal’s […]
Evidence of super-fast deep earthquake
July 20th, 2014 Riffin As scientists learn more about earthquakes that rupture at fault zones near the planet’s surface — and the mechanisms that trigger them — an even more intriguing earthquake mystery lies deeper in the planet. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have discovered the first evidence that deep earthquakes, those breaking at […]
Changyuraptor yangi sheds light on dinosaur flight
July 17th, 2014 Riffin A new raptorial dinosaur fossil with exceptionally long feathers has provided exciting insights into dinosaur flight. A paper published in Nature Communications on July 15, 2014 asserts that the fossil — discovered by an international team led by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) paleontologist Dr. Luis Chiappe — has a long feathered […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Changyuraptor yangi, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Gomphothere mandible uncovered
July 15th, 2014 Riffin An animal once believed to have disappeared from North America before humans ever arrived there might actually have roamed the continent longer than previously thought — and it was likely on the list of prey for some of continent’s earliest humans, researchers from the University of Arizona and elsewhere have found. Archaeologists have discovered artifacts […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Gomphothere, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »First Record of Eocene Bony Fishes and Crocodyliforms from Canada’s Western Arctic
July 14th, 2014 Riffin Discovery of Eocene non-marine vertebrates, including crocodylians, turtles, bony fishes, and mammals in Canada’s High Arctic was a critical paleontological contribution of the last century because it indicated that this region of the Arctic had been mild, temperate, and ice-free during the early – middle Eocene (~53–50 Ma), despite being well above the Arctic Circle. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Crocodyliforms, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Earthquakes: Friction and Fracture are interrelated
July 13th, 2014 Riffin Overturning conventional wisdom stretching all the way to Leonardo da Vinci, new Hebrew University of Jerusalem research shows that how things break (fracture) and how things slide (friction) are closely interrelated. The breakthrough study marks an important advance in understanding friction and fracture, with implications for describing the mechanics that drive earthquakes. Over 500 years […]
Shark teeth analysis provides detailed new look at Arctic climate change
July 11th, 2014 Riffin Source : University of Chicago A new study shows that some shark species may be able to cope with the rising salinity of Arctic waters that may come with rising temperatures. The Arctic today is best known for its tundra and polar bear population, but it wasn’t always like that. Roughly 53 to 38 million […]
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