@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 […]
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WFS News: Recently discovered fossil shows transition of a reptile from life on land to life in the sea
December 9th, 2017 
Riffin 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 […]
WFS News: Gravity Signals to Measure Strong Earthquakes
December 4th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev After an earthquake, there is a disturbance in the field of gravity almost instantaneously. This could be recorded before the seismic waves that seismologists usually analyze. In a study published in Science on December 1, 2017, a team formed of researchers from CNRS, IPGP, the Université Paris Diderot […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Scientists reveals an event of active ‘drip’ tectonics
December 3rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When renowned University of Toronto (U of T) geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson cemented concepts in the emerging field of plate tectonics in the 1960s, he revolutionized the study of Earth’s physical characteristics and behaviours. Decades later, successor researchers at U of T and Istanbul Technical University have determined […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: active 'drip' tectonics, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Scientists, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Feathered dinosaurs were even fluffier than we thought
December 2nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A University of Bristol-led study has revealed new details about dinosaur feathers and enabled scientists to further refine what is potentially the most accurate depiction of any dinosaur species to date. Birds are the direct descendants of a group of feathered, carnivorous dinosaurs that, along with true birds, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Feathered dinosaurs, fluffier, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ancient flying reptiles cared for their young, fossil trove suggests
December 1st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A spectacular fossil find is providing tantalizing new clues about the habits of pterosaurs, ancient flying reptiles that lived at the same times as dinosaurs. The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in northwestern China is “one of the […]
WFS News: Biomass recycling and Earth’s early phosphorus cycle
November 28th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The amount of biomass — life — in Earth’s ancient oceans may have been limited due to low recycling of the key nutrient phosphorus, according to new research by the University of Washington and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The research, published online Nov. 22 in […]
WFS News: Matheronodon provincialis ,New Herbivorous Dinosaur Species
November 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Matheronodon provincialis was a primitive cousin of the well-known European dinosaur Iguanodon. The ancient beast lived 70 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch) and was approximately 16 feet (5 m) long. The fossilized jawbone and three teeth of the new species were discovered at the site of Velaux-La […]
WFS News: Climate change could increase volcano eruptions
November 26th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Shrinking glacier cover could lead to increased volcanic activity in Iceland, warn scientists. A new study, led by the University of Leeds, has found that there was less volcanic activity in Iceland when glacier cover was more extensive and as the glaciers melted volcanic eruptions increased due to […]
