Posts Tagged ‘Russel T Sajeev’

World Fossil Society Predicts A new Cretaceous Bed in South India

World fossil society Founder Riffin T sajeev And his brother Russel T sajeev Found A new evidence for the possibility of  a cretaceous sediment layer somewhere near Koodankulam,Tamilnadu.  WFS group got various cretaceous fossils like Inoceramus,Griphaea etc from this area and ruled out the possibility of mass movement of cretaceous fossils from known cretaceous bed […]

Dinosaur village offers new body of evidence

BEIJING,Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) — Scientists are conducting research on a site where an earlier generation of paleontologists had first begun their work, with the hope of unveiling more of the story from the Late Cretaceous period, Cheng Yingqi reports. The village of Jingangkou, 10 km southeast of Laiyang, Shandong province, is like any farming community. Houses […]

Insect plugs gap in fossil record

PARIS: One day 370 million years ago, a tiny larva plunged into a shrimp-infested swamp and drowned. Unearthed in modern-day Belgium, the humble bug could plug a giant gap in the fossil record. Named Strudiella devonica, the eight-millimetre invertebrate – while in far from mint condition – is thought by researchers who published their findings […]

High Tooth Replacement Rates in Largest Dinosaurs Contributed to Their Evolutionary Success

Rapid tooth replacement by sauropods, the largest dinosaurs in the fossil record, likely contributed to their evolutionary success, according to a research paper by Stony Brook University paleontologist Michael D’Emic, PhD, and colleagues. Published in PLOS ONE, the study also hypothesizes that differences in tooth replacement rates among the giant herbivores likely meant their diets […]

Massive dinosaur fossil unearthed by Alberta pipeline crew

A team of oil pipeline workers digging at a site near Spirit River, Alberta have unearthed an incredible find — a roughly 10-metre-long fossilized dinosaur tail. “What we have is a totally composed tail,” Brian Brake, the executive director of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, told the Edmonton Journal on Wednesday. “It’s beautiful.”   […]

New Fossils Push the Origin of Flowering Plants Back by 100 Million Years to the Early Triassic

Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that flowering plants evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants […]

Dinosaur Wind Tunnel Test Provides New Insight Into the Evolution of Bird Flight

A study into the aerodynamic performance of feathered dinosaurs, by scientists from the University of Southampton, has provided new insight into the evolution of bird flight. In recent years, new fossil discoveries have changed our view of the early evolution of birds and, more critically, their powers of flight. We now know about a number […]

Pakistan’s new island, pushed up by earthquake

(Associated Press) — Alongside the carnage of Pakistan’s massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed. Experts say the island was formed by the massive movement of the earth during the 7.7-magnitude quake that hit Pakistan’s Baluchistan province on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. […]

“Entelognathus primordialis” New Fish Fossil From China

A leading British scientist has said that the discovery of a 419-million-year-old fish fossil in China is a stunning and spectacular development. Palaeobiologist Matt Friedman told the BBC that the fish provided crucial evidence about the evolutionary development of jawed vertebrates. As a remote relative of humans, it provides important evolutionary clues. “It is the […]

Ancient Soils Reveal Clues to Early Life On Earth

Oxygen appeared in the atmosphere up to 700 million years earlier than we previously thought, according to research published today in the journal Nature, raising new questions about the evolution of early life. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University of British Columbia examined the chemical composition of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa — […]