@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev University of Delaware professor Jessica Warren and colleagues from Stanford University, Oxford University and University of Pennsylvania, reported new data that material size-effects matter in plate tectonics. Plate tectonics, the way the Earth’s plates move apart and come back together, has been used since the 1960s to explain […]
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WFS News: Measuring a crucial mineral in the mantle
September 18th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: Trilobite-like arthropod Agnostus pisiformis.
September 16th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev With the help of an artist, a geology professor at Lund University in Sweden has figuratively speaking breathed life into one of science’s most well-known fossil species; Agnostus pisiformis. The trilobite-like arthropod lived in huge numbers in Scandinavia a half-billion years ago. Today, this extinct species provides important […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Agnostus pisiformis, arthropod, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trilobite, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: fossils shed light animal evolution on Earth
September 12th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including palaeontologist from The University of Manchester, found a new set of trace fossils left by some of the first […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animal evolution, Earth, fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: ‘Living fossil fish’ not as old as we thought
September 5th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Polypterids are weird and puzzling African fish that have perplexed biologists since they were discovered during Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in the late 1700s. Often called living fossils, these eel-like misfits have lungs and fleshy pectoral fins, bony plates and thick scales reminiscent of ancient fossil fish, and […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Living fossil fish, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Machine learning predicts laboratory earthquakes
September 4th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before the fault fails. “At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip,” […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, predicts, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Construction crew finds rare triceratops fossil
August 30th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,Wold Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Construction crews working on Thornton’s new Public Safety Facility uncovered a rare dinosaur fossil. Crews working at the site at 132nd Avenue and Quebec Street made uncovered what appeared to be a triceratops skull and skeleton on Friday. Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science went to the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Triceratops, WFS, WFS NEWS, Wold Fossil Society No Comments »WFS News: New Suggestions on Andean Plateau
August 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than 20 years of seismic data from a wide swath of South America’s Andean Plateau and determined that processes there have produced far more continental rock than previously believed. “When crust from an oceanic tectonic plate plunges […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Andean Plateau, New Suggestions, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tropidogyne pentaptera,100-million-year-old fossilized flower
August 22nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus rex bulling its way through a pine forest likely dislodged flowers that 100 million years later have been identified in their fossilized form as a new species of tree. George Poinar Jr., professor emeritus in Oregon State University’s College of Science, said it’s the […]
WFS News: New plate adds plot twist to ancient tectonic tale
August 20th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A microplate discovered off the west coast of Ecuador adds another piece to Earth’s tectonic puzzle, according to Rice University scientists. Researchers led by Rice geophysicist Richard Gordon discovered the microplate, which they have named “Malpelo,” while analyzing the junction of three other plates in the eastern Pacific […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: New plate, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonic, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Unique imaging of a dinosaur’s skull tells evolutionary tale
August 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers using Los Alamos’ unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74-million-year-old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest-resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done. The results add a new piece to the puzzle of how […]
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