@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has captured major attention from paleoseismologists due to evidence from several large (magnitude 8-9) earthquakes preserved in coastal salt marshes. Stratigraphic records are proving to be useful for learning about the CSZ’s past, and microfossils may provide more answers about large ancient earthquakes. […]
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WFS News: Evidence of Earthquakes recorded on fossils
April 24th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs
April 20th, 2017 riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,WFS News Sixty six million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind’s reign on Earth. Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: cold, darkness, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Teleocrater rhadinus had a surprising croc-like look
April 14th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For decades, scientists have wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like miniature dinosaurs, be about the size of a chicken, and walk on two legs. A Virginia Tech paleobiologist’s latest discovery of Teleocrater rhadinus, however, has overturned popular predictions. This […]
WFS News: oldest known member of the phytosaurs found in China
April 11th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs — an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related crocodylians and lived during the Triassic Period, approximately 250 million years ago to 200 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: China, oldest, phytosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 3-D map of Earth’s interior
April 2nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Because of Earth’s layered composition, scientists have often compared the basic arrangement of its interior to that of an onion. There’s the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core. […]
WFS News: Kimberley fossil tracks are Australia’s ‘Jurassic Park’
March 30th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have described a remarkable collection of dinosaur tracks on beaches in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. More than 20 different types of fossil footmarks have been captured in sandstone rock.Some are over 1.5m in size, recording the movement of sauropods – the giant beasts with long […]
WFS News: Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba
March 15th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba. The find helps scientists better understand the evolution and diversity of ancient seed plants. The fossils, from […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ginkgo biloba, Paleontologists, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: One of greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to Earth’s warming
March 7th, 2017 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species disappeared and, up until now, scientists have linked this extinction to a significant rise in Earth temperatures. […]
WFS News: World’s oldest fossils found in Canada?
March 3rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev WFS News: World’s oldest fossils found in Canada? Scientists say they have found the world’s oldest fossils, thought to have formed between 3.77bn and 4.28bn years ago. Comprised of tiny tubes and filaments made of an iron oxide known as haematite, the microfossils are believed to be the […]
WFS News: Tectonic Shift in Early Earth’s Carbon
February 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A study of tiny mineral ‘inclusions’ within diamonds from Botswana has shown that diamond crystals can take billions of years to grow. One diamond was found to contain silicate material that formed 2.3 billion years ago in its interior and a 250 million-year-old garnet crystal towards its outer […]
