@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Artistic reconstruction showing the balbarid kangaroo relative Nambaroo gillespieae (top left) ( Peter […]
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WFS News: kangaroo fossil reveals origin of marsupial hop
February 6th, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski was crushing bones like a hyena
February 3rd, 2019 Riffin @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
February 2nd, 2019 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: feathery fossils, Pterosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Antarctanax,an Iguana-sized dinosaur from Antarctica
February 1st, 2019 Riffin @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
January 31st, 2019 Riffin @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, […]
WFS News: Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation
January 27th, 2019 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists. Their study, published online in Nature Geoscience, provides new evidence of a climate feedback that […]
WFS News: Eretmorhipis carrolldongi,Early Triassic marine reptile
January 26th, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, but about 250 million years ago something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is […]
WFS News: T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark
January 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark Scientists examining rock left over from the discovery of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex recently came across a surprise: shark teeth. The huge meat-eating dinosaur, the remains of which were extricated in the 1990s, was not killed by a shark. But, scientists said on […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, shark, T rex, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides
January 19th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides SUSAN IVY-OCHS & FLORIAN KOBER Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal,57/1–2,157–189,Hannover 2008 Abstract: In the last decades surface exposure dating using cosmogenic nuclides has emerged as a powerful tool in Quaternary geochronology and landscape evolution studies. Cosmogenic nuclides are produced in rocks and […]
WFS News: An unexpected noncarpellate epigynous flower from the Jurassic of China
January 18th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Despite the importance of, the great interest in and intensive effort spent on investigating angiosperms, a controversy remains as to when and how this group came into existence. Since the time of Darwin, some scholars have proposed that angiosperms existed before the Cretaceous (Smith et al., 2010; Clarke et […]
