@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossil, which dates back to the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago), is a chick from a group of prehistoric birds called, […]
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WFS News: Baby bird fossil ( Enantiornithes) gives a rare look at avian development
March 8th, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago
March 4th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Take a good look at this photo: It shows you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on young Earth. The bubbles were photographed and analyzed by researchers studying early life on Earth. Microbes are […]
WFS News: Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced
March 3rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world’s most iconic animal families — namely elephants, and their relatives mammoths and mastodons-spanning millions of years. The team of scientists-which included researchers from McMaster, the […]
WFS News: First detailed 3-D images of a megathrust fault off Costa Rica
February 24th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Geophysicists have obtained detailed three-dimensional images of a dangerous megathrust fault west of Costa Rica where two plates of the Earth’s crust collide. The images reveal features of the fault surface, including long grooves or corrugations, that may determine how the fault will slip in an earthquake. The […]
WFS News: Forecasting the eruption of an open-vent volcano using resonant infrasound tones.
February 22nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has shown that monitoring inaudible low frequencies called infrasound produced by a type of active volcano could improve the forecasting of significant, potentially deadly eruptions. Scientists from Stanford and Boise State University analyzed the infrasound detected by monitoring stations on the slopes of the Villarrica […]
WFS News: Osaka whale fossil believed to be first evidence of Eden’s whale
February 19th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev OSAKA – A whale skull discovered just over 50 years ago in the city of Osaka is now thought to be the world’s first known trace of an Eden’s whale, dating from between 4,000 and 8,800 years ago. The fossilized remains were reclassified in a study published recently in […]
Posted in General Tags: Eden’s whale, first evidence, Osaka, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, whale fossil, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil footprints may put lizards on two feet 110 million years ago
February 16th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized footprints from an iguana-like reptile provide what could be the earliest evidence of a lizard running on two legs. The 29 exceptionally well-preserved lizard tracks, found in a slab of rock from an abandoned quarry in Hadong County, South Korea, include back feet with curved digits and […]
WFS News: Did surface life evolve on Mars?
February 15th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features such as dried river channels and dried lake beds that hint at a warmer, wetter, more earthlike climate […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mars, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, surface life, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub meteor strike
February 12th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New University of Oregon research has identified gravity-related fluctuations dating to 66 million years ago along deep ocean ridges that point to a “one-two punch” from the big meteor that struck off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, possibly triggering a worldwide release of volcanic magma that could have helped seal […]
Posted in General Tags: Chicxulub, global volcanism, meteor strike, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Seafloor data, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: When did flowers originate?
February 11th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Flowering plants likely originated between 149 and 256 million years ago according to new UCL-led research. The study, published today in New Phytologist by researchers from the UK and China, shows that flowering plants are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular studies, nor as young […]
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