By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 5, 2018 ,http://www.sciencemag.org @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Amber mined for centuries in Myanmar for jewelry is a treasure trove for understanding the evolution of spiders and their other arachnid relatives. This week, two independent teams describe four 100-million-year-old specimens encased in amber that look like a cross between a […]
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WFS News: Part spider, part scorpion creature captured in amber
February 9th, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Earth’s core and mantle separated in a disorderly fashion
February 5th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Plumes of hot rock surging upward from the Earth’s mantle at volcanic hotspots contain evidence that the Earth’s formative years may have been even more chaotic than previously thought, according to new work from a team of Carnegie and Smithsonian scientists published in Nature. It is well understood […]
Posted in General Tags: disorderly fashion, Earth's Core, Mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur-Era Bird Found Trapped in Amber
February 4th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The squashed remains of a small bird that lived 99 million years ago have been found encased in a cloudy slab of amber from Myanmar (Burma). While previous birds found in Burmese amber have been more visually spectacular, none of them have contained as much of the skeleton […]
Posted in General Tags: Amber, Dinosaur-Era Bird, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trapped, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Young tourist helps Edmonton researchers in discovery of rare Colombian fish fossil
February 1st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Edmonton paleontologists are crediting a keen-eyed tourist for spotting a never-before-seen fish fossil in flagstones outside a Colombian monastery. The perfectly-preserved “lizard fish” specimen is an estimated 90 million years old and has no modern relatives. The extremely rare specimen is the first fossil of its kind to […]
WFS news: New Egyptian sauropod (Mansourasaurus ) reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa
January 30th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When it comes to the final days of the dinosaurs, Africa is something of a blank page. Fossils found in Africa from the Late Cretaceous, the time period from 100 to 66 million years ago, are few and far between. That means that the course of dinosaur evolution […]
WFS News: Revolutionary theory on horse evolution
January 26th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long wondered how the horse evolved from an ancestor with five toes to the animal we know today. While it is largely believed that horses simply evolved with fewer digits, researchers at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) pose a new theory […]
Posted in General Tags: horse evolution, Revolutionary theory, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Rare 450-million-year-old ‘cone-shaped’ fossil discovery
January 24th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the University of Leicester, working with an international team of geologists, have discovered an enigmatic fossil of a 450 million year-old creature resembling a tiny ice-cream cone. Fossils of the creature, in which the ‘body’ resembles a scoop of ice cream atop the cone, was located […]
WFS News: 508-year old bristle worm found
January 22nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev TORONTO — A new fossil species of bristle worm has been found at the 508-million-year-old Marble Canyon site in B.C.’s Kootenay National Park. The worm found at the Burgess Shale site is helping scientists better understand analids, which include present-day leeches and earthworms.They are found in nearly all […]
Posted in General Tags: 508-year old, bristle worm, found, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Expedition to explore the Havre volcano reveals surprising underwater details
January 21st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealand. The raft eventually grew to more than […]
Posted in General Tags: Expedition, explore, Havre volcano, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, surprising, underwater, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Crepidosoma Doyleii,435m-year-old starfish fossil
January 20th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 435 million-year-old starfish fossil has been discovered in Conamara, Co Galway.The specimen will go on display at the Museum of Natural History in Dublin.It was discovered by geologist Dr Eamon Doyle in Maam Valley. Details of the find are contained in the latest issue of the Irish […]
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