@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 […]
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WFS News: New Suggestions on Andean Plateau
August 25th, 2017 
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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 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Evolutionary Tale, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Teleosaster creasyi,Fossil of a new species of starfish
August 16th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new species of ancient starfish-like sea creature has been discovered in a remote town nearly 200 kilometres from the ocean by University of Western Australia, Curtin University and University of Cambridge researchers. Brittle stars, or ophiuroids, are closely related to starfish.More than 2,000 species are found in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, new species, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, starfish, Teleosaster creasyi, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new species of Tritylodontid found in Japan
August 13th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Teeth can reveal a lot, such as how the earliest mammals lived with their neighbors. Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid, an animal family that links the evolution of mammals from reptiles. This finding suggests […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Japan, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tritylodontid, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Well-preserved 110 MYO dinosaur found in Canada
August 6th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society ,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev AN EXTRAORDINARILY well-preserved 110-million-year-old dinosaur found in a mine pit in Canada now has a name and evidence of a troubled past, researchers said Thursday. With fossilized skin and scales, the dragon-like creature is actually a new kind of nodosaur, coined Borealopelta markmitchelli, after the museum […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 110 MYO, Canada, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Montsechia vidalii ,First Flower on Earth?
August 3rd, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Three was the magic number for the very first flowering plant. The largest study into their early evolution has concluded that its flowers probably had petal-like tepals and pollen-bearing stamens arranged in layered whorls of three. It bore similarities with magnolias, buttercups and laurels – but was […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: First Flower, Montsechia vidalii, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Whether sills caused mass extinction?
August 1st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world’s most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago. James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mass extinction, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, sills, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Birgeria americana,Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction
July 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The most catastrophic mass extinction on Earth took place about 252 million years ago — at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geological periods. Up to 90 percent of the marine species of that time were annihilated. Worldwide biodiversity then recovered in several phases throughout a period […]
