@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin like reptiles today, thus shedding new light on the evolutionary transition from scales to feathers. The researchers studied a new specimen of the feathered dinosaur Psittacosaurus from the early Cretaceous […]
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WFS News: Scientists discover hidden step in evolution of dinosaur feather
June 3rd, 2024 
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No Comments »WFS News: Abelisauroid, a dinosaur with very tiny arms
June 2nd, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A team of paleontologists from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has identified a new species of abelisauroid dinosaur. They have named it Koleken inakayali. The work is published in the journal Cladistics. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Abelisauroid, Athira, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tiny arms, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs
June 2nd, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Vigo suggests that the ability to regulate body temperature, a characteristic shared by all modern mammals and birds, may have first developed among certain dinosaurs in the early Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Origin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, warm blooded dinosaurs, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Jurassic fossil fish more than 180 million years old found
June 1st, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A fierce-looking fossil fish has been discovered in a new Jurassic dig site in Gloucestershire, having been perfectly preserved for almost 200 million years. The fossil shows pronounced big eyes and teeth with its mouth wide open of a fish which lived in a tropical sea […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, fossil fish, Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tyrannosaurus rex had lips over its teeth, research suggests
June 1st, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev While T rex is often depicted prowling the landscape while sporting a toothy grin, its fearsome teeth may actually have been concealed behind a pair of thin, scaly lips, research suggests. Experts say the perception that theropods were lipless arose because of the huge size […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tyrannosaurus rex had lips, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Large fossil discovery finally exposes origins of Welsh dragons
May 31st, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A large fossil discovery has helped shed light on the history of dinosaurs in Wales. The find is reported in Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association. Until recently, the land of the dragon didn’t have any dinosaurs. However, in the last 10 years, several dinosaurs have been reported, but […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, fossil discovery, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Welsh dragons, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Musankwa sanyatiensis, a new dinosaur from Zimbabwe
May 30th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named from Zimbabwe. The research detailing this significant discovery is set to be published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Dinosaur, Musankwa sanyatiensis, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, Zimbabwe No Comments »WFS News: The skull of a prehistoric sea monster found on the Jurassic Coast has made it into the world record books.
May 29th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The skull of a prehistoric sea monster found on the Jurassic Coast has made it into the world record books, according to BBC. The 2m-long (6ft) skull of a pliosaur, excavated from high above a beach in Dorset, was the subject of a BBC film presented by Sir […]
WFS News: Tharosaurus indicus, an oldest long-necked dinosaur unearthed in India
November 3rd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of the oldest long-necked dinosaur that inhabited Earth about 167 million years ago have been unearthed in India that reveal the country was a “major centre of dinosaur evolution”, experts said. The discovery unearths some of the oldest plant-eating giant reptiles to have roamed the planet. The dinosaur, named Tharosaurus indicus after India’s Thar desert, walked […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, INDIA, long-necked dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tharosaurus indicus, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
October 23rd, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct species for the first time. The […]
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