A fossilized elephant tusk at least 100,000 years old has been discovered on the seafloor off the Sicilian coast, according to a survey of underwater archaeologists. Discovered during a series of archaeological dives in the waters off Torretta Granitola, a village on the island’s southwestern coast, the tusk is more than 3 feet long. “It […]
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Fossilized Elephant Tusk Found on Seafloor
July 9th, 2014 
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No Comments »Argentavis magnificens: Largest Prehistoric Bird
July 8th, 2014 Riffin Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found. With an estimated 20-24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed size estimates based on wing bones from the previous record holder — a long-extinct bird named Argentavis magnificens — and was twice as big as the Royal […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Argentavis magnificens, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 1 Comment »Ammonite fossil discovered in Hawkes Bay
July 6th, 2014 Riffin The fossil of a squid-like creature wiped out with the dinosaurs has been discovered in a Hawkes Bay streambed. The surprise find of the ammonite fossil – found contained in a 50kg boulder in the Waiau River – has excited scientists about what other specimens may lay hidden in New Zealand’s under-explored wilderness. The uncovered […]
Scientists Discover Why Female Dinosaurs Laid Smaller Eggs
July 5th, 2014 Riffin A team of researchers have discovered that though dinosaurs were the largest creatures to have ever walked on Earth, they did not lay the world’s largest eggs. Both individual egg size and clutch size of sauropods, one of the largest group of dinosaurs, were found to be a lot smaller than previously thought. Sauropods, including diplodocus, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Female Dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »New specimen of Archaeopteryx reveals previously unknown features of the plumage
July 4th, 2014 Riffin Paleontologists of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich are currently studying a new specimen of Archaeopteryx, which reveals previously unknown features of the plumage. The initial findings shed light on the original function of feathers and their recruitment for flight. A century and a half after its discovery and a mere 150 million years or so since […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Archaeopteryx, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Why Diplodocus did not put all her eggs in one basket
June 30th, 2014 Riffin If you thought the largest dinosaurs to have walked the Earth produced the biggest eggs, you’d be mistaken. Scientists have discovered that both individual egg size and clutch size for the sauropods — which includes Diplodocus — were a lot smaller than might be expected for such enormous creatures. A team of scientists have suggested […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Diplodocus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with Transitional Features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China
June 29th, 2014 Riffin Southwestern Henan Province in central China contains many down-faulted basins, including the Xixia Basin where the Upper Cretaceous continental sediments are well exposed. The Majiacun Formation is a major dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic unit that occurs in this basin. Methodology/Principal Findings A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur, Zhanghenglong yangchengensis gen. et sp. nov., is named based on newly […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: et al., Hadrosauroid, Han F, Ma Q, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sullivan C, Wang D, WFS, world fossil society, Xing H No Comments »Study sheds light on how one of Earth’s oldest reefs was formed
June 27th, 2014 Riffin It is a remarkable survivor of an ancient aquatic world — now a new study sheds light on how one of Earth’s oldest reefs was formed. Researchers have discovered that one of these reefs — now located on dry land in Namibia — was built almost 550 million years ago, by the first animals to […]
Plate tectonics : movement of plates explained by scientists
June 26th, 2014 Riffin A team of researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geophysicist Dave Stegman has developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth’s surface. The new theory extends the theory of plate tectonics — a kinematic description of plate motion without reference to the forces behind it […]
Frictional melting help predict volcanic eruption behavior
June 25th, 2014 Riffin A new discovery in the study of how lava dome volcanoes erupt may help in the development of methods to predict how a volcanic eruption will behave, say scientists at the University of Liverpool. Volcanologists at the University have discovered that a process called frictional melting plays a role in determining how a volcano will […]
