@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant flightless bird — the now extinct adzebill — showing that some of its closest living relatives are the pint-sized flufftails from Madagascar and Africa. Led by the University of Adelaide, the research in the journal Diversity showed that […]
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WFS News: Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird adzebill traced to Africa
WFS News:Plant leaf tooth feature extraction
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Plant leaf tooth feature extraction Citation: Wang H, Tian D, Li C, Tian Y, Zhou H (2019) Plant leaf tooth feature extraction. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0204714. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204714 Editor: Yi Jiang, Georgia State University, UNITED STATES Leaf tooth can indicate several systematically informative features and is extremely useful for circumscribing fossil […]
WFS News: Tiny tyrannosaur fossil discovery changes the dinosaur timeline
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t always the king of the dinosaurs. Before they became towering predators, tyrannosaurs started out much smaller, and a newly discovered fossil is helping fill the gap between those two extremes. The fossil findings are detailed in a study published Thursday in Communications Biology. The dinosaur fossil […]
WFS News: 2.1-Billion-Year-Old Fossil May Be Evidence of Earliest Moving Life-Form
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 2.1 billion years ago, a blob-like creature inched along on an early Earth. As the organism moved, it carved out tunnels, which may be the earliest evidence of a moving critter on the planet. Until this discovery, the earliest evidence of motility — that is, an organism’s […]
WFS News: Ancient Passerines Fossils reveals Oldest Finch-Beaked Birds
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 52-million-year fossil of a “perching bird” has been found in Wyoming with its feathers still attached, a discovery that “no one’s ever seen before.” Also known as passerines, the perching bird was discovered in Fossil Lake, WY. Passerines are well-known for eating seeds, as most modern-day birds do and […]
WFS News: kangaroo fossil reveals origin of marsupial hop
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Artistic reconstruction showing the balbarid kangaroo relative Nambaroo gillespieae (top left) ( Peter […]
WFS News: Dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski was crushing bones like a hyena
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones for salt and marrow, a behavior often linked to mammals but seldom to archosaurs. Most predatory dinosaurs used their […]
WFS News: Pterosaurs: Fur flies over feathery fossils
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Two exceptionally well preserved fossils give a new picture of the pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists believe the creatures may have had feathers, and looked something like brown bats with fuzzy wings. The surprise discovery suggests feathers evolved not in […]
WFS News: Antarctanax,an Iguana-sized dinosaur from Antarctica
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica wasn’t always a frozen wasteland — 250 million years ago, it was covered in forests and rivers, and the temperature rarely dipped below freezing. It was also home to diverse wildlife, including early relatives of the dinosaurs. Scientists have just discovered the newest member of that family […]
WFS News: Koreamegops samsiki,The ancient spider had eyes that shone in the dark
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev IF YOU COULD time-travel to Korea 110 million years ago, you’d see an eerie spectacle if you walked out at night with a flashlight: Each sweep of your beam would make the landscape sparkle as innumerable spider eyes glinted in the dark. In a new study in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, […]