@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Sponges may be simple creatures, but they basically ruled the world some 445 million years ago, after the Ordovician mass extinction, a new study finds. Roughly 85 percent of all species died in the Ordovician mass extinction, the first of the world’s five known mass extinctions. (The other […]
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WFS News: Sponges Ruled the World After Second-Largest Mass Extinction
May 11th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: Ammonite ‘death drag’ fossil discovered
May 9th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The “death drag” of a prehistoric “squid” – or ammonite – made 150-million-years-ago has been preserved as an incredible fossil. The animal’s shell made the 8.5m-long mark as it drifted along the seafloor after its death.Ammonites are one of the most common and popular fossils collected by amateur […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ammonite, death drag, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:New light shed on ‘world’s oldest animal fossils’
May 8th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered that ancient fossils, thought to be some of the world’s earliest examples of animal remains, could in fact belong to other groups such as algae. The Weng’an Biota is a fossil Konservat-Lagerstätte in South China that […]
WFS News: Oldest orchid fossil on record identified.
May 7th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The orchid family has some 28,000 species — more than double the number of bird species and quadruple the mammal species. As it turns out, they’ve also been around for a while. A newly published study documents evidence of an orchid fossil trapped in Baltic amber that dates […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: identified., Oldest orchid fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev: Chenanisaurus barbaricus,”Last dino in Africa” discovered in Moroccan mine
May 5th, 2017 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the fossil, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, suggests that following the breakup of […]
WFS News:Fossil sheds light on ‘Jurassic Park’ dinosaurs
May 2nd, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Brachiosaurus, depicted in Jurassic Park, now has an early relative, providing clues to the evolution of some of the biggest creatures on Earth.Scientists say the plant-eating dinosaur was longer than a double-decker bus and weighed 15,000kg.Its remains were found in the 1930s in the Jura region of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, fossil, Jurassic Park, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Early organic carbon got deep burial in mantle
April 30th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Rice University petrologists who recreated hot, high-pressure conditions from 60 miles below Earth’s surface have found a new clue about a crucial event in the planet’s deep past. Their study describes how fossilized carbon — the remains of Earth’s earliest single-celled creatures — could have been subsumed and […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Early organic carbon, Mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: long-held theory of Tsunami formation challenged
April 29th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new NASA study is challenging a long-held theory that tsunamis form and acquire their energy mostly from vertical movement of the seafloor. An undisputed fact was that most tsunamis result from a massive shifting of the seafloor — usually from the subduction, or sliding, of one tectonic […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tsunami formation, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tokummia Katalepsis, a Cambrian-era predator
April 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Tokummia Katalepsis The newest creature discovered at the Burgess Shale fossil site in B.C. looks like it’s part centipede, part crab and part can-opener. Meet the tokummia katalepsis, a Cambrian-era predator, found by paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum.The team released news of the […]
WFS News: Moabosaurus discovered in Utah’s ‘gold mine’
April 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Moabosaurus,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Moabosaurus discovery was published this week by the University of Michigan’s Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology. The paper, authored by three Brigham Young University researchers and a BYU graduate at Auburn University, profiles Moabosaurus, a 125-million-year-old dinosaur whose skeleton was assembled using bones extracted from the […]
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