@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Life on Earth could be nearly four billion years old, new fossil evidence suggests. Researchers analysed rocks found in Saglek in northern Labrador, Canada, which were dated to at least 3.95 billion years ago. At that time, the Earth was still relatively young – it was formed […]
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WFS news: new fossil discovery suggests Life on Earth could be nearly four billion years old
September 27th, 2017 
Riffin WFS News: 3-D scanning methods allow an inside look into fossilized feces
September 24th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Coprolites are fossilized feces that give evidence of an organism’s behavior and often contain food residues, parasite remains and other fossils that provide clues to ancient paleoecological relations. Many of the inclusions in coprolites are delicate and fossilized soft tissues, which in many cases are more likely preserved […]
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1 Comment »WFS News: Early trilobites had stomachs?
September 22nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have revealed new insights into the extinct marine animal’s digestive system. Published today in the journal PLOS ONE, the new study shows that at least two trilobite species evolved a stomach structure 20 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trilobites, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tracking brain-skull transition from dinosaurs to birds
September 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The dramatic, dinosaur-to-bird transition that occurred in reptiles millions of years ago was accompanied by profound changes in the skull roof of those animals — and holds important clues about the way the skull forms in response to changes in the brain — according to a new study. […]
WFS News: Measuring a crucial mineral in the mantle
September 18th, 2017 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: olivine, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 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 […]
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