Many crazy antics can happen at bachelor parties, but discovering an ancient fossil isn’t usually one of them. Well, that was the case for a group of campers celebrating a bachelor party at a New Mexico state park Monday, who stumbled upon the fossil of a 3-million-year-old elephant-like creature called a stegomastodon. The stag group […]
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Earthquakes due to volcanic pressure : A warning signal of Volcanic eruptions
June 11th, 2014 
Riffin Source: Wiley New research in Geophysical Research Letters examines earthquake swarms caused by mounting volcanic pressure which may signal an imminent eruption. The research team studied Augustine Volcano in Alaska which erupted in 2006 and found that precursory earthquakes were caused by a block in the lava flow. 36 hours before the first magmatic explosions, […]
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No Comments »Baltic amber deposits reveal A new species of flat bug from the genus Aradus preserved in amber
June 10th, 2014 Riffin A piece of Eocene Baltic Amber of about 45 million years age contains a well preserved extinct flat bug, which turned out to be a new species to science. This exciting discovery is one of the many secrets that deposits of Baltic amber have revealed in the last years and are yet to come in […]
First 3-D pterosaur eggs found with their parents
June 9th, 2014 Riffin Researchers have discovered the first three-dimensionally preserved pterosaur eggs in China. The eggs were found among dozens, if not hundreds, of pterosaur fossils, representing a new genus and species (Hamipterus tianshanensis). The discovery, described in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 5, reveals that the pterosaurs — flying reptiles with wingspans ranging from […]
A 66 million year old forest fire sheds light on extinction of the dinosaurs
June 7th, 2014 Riffin Source: McGill University As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to a team of researchers from McGill University and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil-record evidence […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, extinction, Forest fire, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Scientists reconstruct ancient impact that dwarfs dinosaur-extinction blast
April 16th, 2014 Riffin Picture this: A massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs slams into Earth. The collision punches a crater into the planet’s crust that’s nearly 500 kilometers (about 300 miles) across: greater than the distance from Washington, D.C. […]
Extinct carnivorous marsupial Nimbacinus dicksoni may have hunted prey larger than itself
April 15th, 2014 Riffin The reconstruction of an extinct meat-eating marsupial’s skull, Nimbacinus dicksoni, suggests that it may have had the ability to hunt vertebrate prey exceeding its own body size, according to results published April 9, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Attard from the University of New England together with colleagues from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: carnivorous, Extinct, marsupial, Nimbacinus dicksoni, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Lone survivor of catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago?
April 13th, 2014 Riffin A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence as to whether the impact was in fact the cause of their extinction. Researchers from […]
Extinct plants ‘back to life’ through colour rendering
April 12th, 2014 Riffin Jeff Benca is an admitted über-geek when it comes to prehistoric plants, so it was no surprise that, when he submitted a paper describing a new species of long-extinct lycopod for publication, he ditched the standard line drawing and insisted on a detailed and beautifully rendered color reconstruction of the plant. This piece earned the […]
500 million years old fossilized embryos found
April 11th, 2014 Riffin The Cambrian Period is a time when most phyla of marine invertebrates first appeared in the fossil record. Also dubbed the “Cambrian explosion,” fossilized records from this time provide glimpses into evolutionary biology when the world’s ecosystems rapidly changed and diversified. Most fossils show the organisms’ skeletal structure, which may or may not give researchers […]
