@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 […]
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WFS News: Plant fossils provide new insight into the uplift history of SE Tibet
July 17th, 2018 
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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 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossils, Germany, Pufferfish, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New species of sponge-like fossil from the Cambrian Period
June 24th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered the fossil of an unusual large-bodied sponge-like sea-creature from half a billion years ago. The creature belongs to an obscure and mysterious group of animals known as the chancelloriids, and scientists are unclear about where they fit in the tree of life.They represent a lineage […]
Posted in General Tags: Cambrian Period, fossil, New, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, species, sponge, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new Miocene pinniped Allodesmus from Japan
June 21st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, northern Japan Wataru Tonomori, Hiroshi Sawamura, Tamaki Sato, Naoki Kohno Published 16 May 2018.DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172440 A nearly complete pinniped skeleton from the middle Miocene Okoppezawa Formation (ca 16.3–13.9 Ma), Hokkaido, northern Japan, is described as the holotype of Allodesmus uraiporensis sp. nov. The new species is distinguishable from other […]
Posted in General Tags: Allodesmus, Japan, new Miocene pinniped, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Prehistoric frog in 99-million-year-old amber
June 16th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In the film Jurassic Park, dinosaur DNA is extracted from mosquitoes which had been preserved in amber. Now, scientists have discovered an amber fossil of a juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar dating back about 99 million years.Although the species is extinct, it has now been named Electrorana limoae […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 99-million-year-old, Amber, Prehistoric frog, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First seismic evidence for mantle exhumation at an ultraslow-spreading center
June 10th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Episodic magmatism and serpentinized mantle exhumation at an ultraslow-spreading centre A mountain range with a total length of 65,000 kilometers runs through all the oceans. It marks the boundaries of tectonic plates. Through the gap between the plates material from the Earth’s interior emerges, forming new seafloor, building […]
WFS News: A new insight into the mechanism of biosilicification
June 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Formation of Asymmetrical Structured Silica Controlled by a Phase Separation Process and Implication for Biosilicification Citation: Shi J-Y, Yao Q-Z, Li X-M, Zhou G-T, Fu S-Q (2013) Formation of Asymmetrical Structured Silica Controlled by a Phase Separation Process and Implication for Biosilicification. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61164. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061164 Editor: Vipul Bansal, […]
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