@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify […]
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WFS News: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity
October 17th, 2018 
Riffin WFS News: Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel
October 13th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The oldest flying squirrel fossil ever found has unearthed new insight on the origin and evolution of these airborne animals. Writing in the open-access journal eLife, researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) in Barcelona, Spain, described the 11.6-million-year-old fossil, which was discovered in Can Mata […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa
October 8th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four metres […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Earliest Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, South Africa, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Description of climate-envelope models
October 7th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Climate-envelope models attempt to capture the climatic conditions that constrain the potential niche of a species, and use them to predict the probability of occurrence of species in an area. There are many different types of climate-envelope models [1], distinguished among other things by the type of data […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: climate-envelope models, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil of Oldest Flowering Tree in North America Discovered
October 1st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev During the late Cretaceous period, northeastern Utah was home to pterosaurs, duck-billed dinosaurs and fearsome therizinosaurs with claws that would put Edward Scissorhands to shame. Now, add to that list giant flowering trees. A fossil log found in the Mancos Shale of Utah reveals that huge angiosperms were part […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil, Oldest Flowering Tree, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Plant fossils provide new insight into the uplift history of SE Tibet
July 17th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau in the world, is well known as ‘The Third Pole’. Tibet has also been called ‘Asia’s water tower’ because so many of Asia’s major rivers such as the Ganges, Indus, Tsangpo/Brahmaputra, Mekong, Yellow and Yangse rivers originate there. Despite its […]
Posted in General Tags: Plant fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tibet, uplift, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists have discovered the oldest colors in the geological record
July 10th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers. N. Gueneli, A. M. McKenna, N. Ohkouchi, C. J. Boreham, J. Beghin, E. J. Javaux, and J. J. Brocks. PNAS, 2018 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803866115 The average cell size of marine phytoplankton is critical […]
WFS News: Evidence for arboreal radiation of stem primates in the Palaeocene
July 6th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Oldest skeleton of a plesiadapiform provides additional evidence for an exclusively arboreal radiation of stem primates in the Palaeocene Stephen G. B. Chester, Thomas E. Williamson, Jonathan I. Bloch, Mary T. Silcox, Eric J. Sargis Palaechthonid plesiadapiforms from the Palaeocene of western North America have long been recognized as among the oldest […]
Posted in General Tags: arboreal radiation, EVIDENCE, Palaeocene, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, stem primates, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Early African Fossils Elucidate the Origin of Embrithopod Mammals
July 1st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Long before rhinoceros, giraffes, hippos, and antelopes roamed the African savannah, a group of large and highly specialized mammals known as embrithopods inhabited the continent. The most well known is Arsinoitherium, an animal that looked much like a rhinoceros but was in fact more closely related to elephants, […]
Posted in General Tags: African, Elucidate, fossils, Mammals, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, the Origin of Embrithopod, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossils of Pufferfish species unearthed in Germany
June 28th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in southern Germany have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown pufferfish. A team from the Bamberg Museum of Natural History made the find in a stone quarry in nearby Wattendorf. Matthias Mäuser, the head of the museum, said the pufferfish lived around 150 million years […]
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