@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Volcanic eruptions are the most spectacular expression of the processes acting in the interior of any active planet. Effusive eruptions consist of a gentle and steady flow of lava on the surface, while explosive eruptions are violent phenomena that can eject hot materials up to several kilometres into […]
Posts Tagged ‘WFS NEWS’
WFS News: Chemical tipping point of magma determines explosive potential of volcanoes
December 17th, 2017 
Riffin WFS News: Late Permian (Lopingian) terrestrial ecosystems: A global comparison with new data from the low-latitude Bletterbach Biota
December 16th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Citation: “Late Permian (Lopingian) terrestrial ecosystems: A global comparison with new data from the low-latitude Bletterbach Biota” .MassimoBernardiabFabio MassimoPettiacEvelynKustatscherdeMatthiasFranzfChristophHartkopf-FrödergConrad C.LabandeirahijTorstenWapplerkJohanna H.A.van Konijnenburg-van CittertlBrandon R.PeecookmKenneth D.Angielczykm The late Palaeozoic is a pivotal period for the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems. Generalised warming and aridification trends resulted in profound floral and […]
WFS news: Dinosaur parasites trapped in 100-million-year-old amber tell blood-sucking story
December 15th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved in amber show that these parasites sucked the blood of feathered dinosaurs almost 100 million years ago, according to a new article published in Nature Communications today. Sealed inside a piece of 99 million-year-old Burmese amber researchers found a so-called hard tick […]
WFS News: Rhaeticosaurus mertensi fossil gives clues to life in ancient oceans
December 14th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Source: Article By Helen Briggs ,BBC News A new fossil is shedding light on the murky past of the sea reptiles that swam at the time of the dinosaurs. With tiny heads on long necks and four pointed flippers, plesiosaurs have been likened to Scotland’s mythical Loch Ness […]
WFS News: Fossil hunters find bones of human-sized penguin on New Zealand beach
December 13th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The remnants of an ancient penguin that stood as tall as a human have been found encased in rock on a beach in New Zealand. Fossil hunters chanced upon the prehistoric bones in sedimentary rock that formed 55m to 60m years ago on what is now Hampden beach […]
Posted in Featured Post 
Tags: Bones, Fossil hunters, human-sized, new zealand, penguin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 
No Comments »WFS News: Los Angeles construction unearths ‘rare’ fossil trove
December 12th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossilized remains of creatures that roamed southern California 10,000 years ago were discovered by a crew digging for a subway extension under the busy streets of Los Angeles. Ashley Leger works for a company contracted by Los Angeles transportation officials to keep paleontologists on hand as the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 'rare', construction, fossil trove, Los Angeles, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, unearths, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Wakaleo schouteni,New species of extinct marsupial lion
December 9th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Australian scientists has discovered a new species of marsupial lion which has been extinct for at least 19 million years. The findings, published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, are based on fossilised remains of the animal’s skull, teeth, and humerus (upper arm bone) found […]
WFS News: Recently discovered fossil shows transition of a reptile from life on land to life in the sea
December 9th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Using modern research tools on a 155-million-year-old reptile fossil, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the American Museum of Natural History report they have filled in some important clues to the evolution of animals that once roamed land and transitioned to life in the water. A report on the […]
WFS News: Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs
December 7th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia unites an unexpected combination of features that defines a new group of semi-aquatic predators related to Velociraptor. Detailed 3D synchrotron analysis allowed an international team of researchers to present the bizarre 75 million-year-old predator, named Halszkaraptor escuilliei, in Nature. The study […]
WFS News: Early avian evolution: The Archaeopteryx that wasn‘t
December 5th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich correct a case of misinterpretation: The first fossil “Archaeopteryx” to be discovered is actually a predatory dinosaur belonging to the anchiornithid family, which was previously known only from finds made in China. Even 150 million years after its first appearance on our […]
