@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized fish captured mid-swim offer a rare glimpse into extinct animal behavior — and suggest that swimming in schools developed at least 50 million years ago. A limestone shale slab from the Eocene Epoch reveals that extinct, thimble-sized fish called Erismatopterus levatus may have coordinated their motion similar to how fish in […]
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WFS News: A School of Fish, Captured in a Fossil
May 31st, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: True colors of dinosaurs and other creatures from Fossils.
May 26th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev What color was T. Rex? What about triceratops or glyptodon? Until recently, the palette of prehistory was the sole provenance of daydreams, CGI artists or kids with crayons. Advances in imaging technology are bringing us closer to real answers. Over the past decade, we’ve learned that Sinosauropteryx’s tail was striped, and […]
WFS News: Amber imitation?
May 17th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Prehistoric Iberians created “imitation amber” by repeatedly coating bead cores with tree resins, according to a study published May 1, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carlos Odriozola from Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and colleagues. Many studies have confirmed the ornamental and symbolic importance of amber to European […]
Posted in General Tags: Amber, imitation, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground
May 12th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Identification of avian flapping motion from non-volant winged dinosaurs based on modal effective mass analysis Before they evolved the ability to fly, two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground, according to new research by Jing-Shan Zhao of […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Two-legged dinosaurs, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Plate Tectonics new evidences…
April 30th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: the oxygen in the world’s […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: new evidences, plate tectonics, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: ‘Giant lion’ fossil found in Kenya museum drawer
April 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Of all the places you could imagine discovering a giant meat-eating mammal, a drawer is probably not one. But a pair of researchers from Ohio University have done just that. Matthew Borths was studying fossils at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya when he decided to have a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Giant lion fossil, Kenya museum, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Sollasina cthulhu, The ‘Monstrous’ ancient fossil
April 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An incredibly well-preserved fossil unearthed in Herefordshire has been named after a hideous creature from fiction: Sollasina cthulhu. Although no larger than 3cm wide, its array of tentacles reminded the team who discovered it of the monster Cthulhu created by American author H.P. Lovecraft. A gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, the […]
WFS News: Fossil site shows signs of meteor impact
March 30th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Sixty-six million years ago, a giant meteor slammed into Earth off the coast of modern-day Mexico. Firestorms incinerated the landscape for miles around. Even creatures thousands of miles away were doomed on that fateful day, if not by fire and brimstone, then by mega-earthquakes and waves of unimaginable size. Now, scientists […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossil site .signs, meteor impact, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations
March 27th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale populations Many whales take long journeys each year, spending summers feeding in cold waters and moving to warm tropical waters to breed. One theory suggests that these long-distance migrations originated around 5 million years […]
Posted in General Tags: Fossil barnacles, migrations, prehistoric whale, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Computer simulations on swimming of Ichthyosaurs
March 8th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Using computer simulations and 3D models, palaeontologists from the University of Bristol have uncovered more detail on how Mesozoic sea dragons swam. The research, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, sheds new light on their energy demands while swimming, showing that even the first […]
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