@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A remarkable 250 million-year-old “terrible-headed lizard” fossil found in China shows an embryo inside the mother — clear evidence for live birth. Head of The University of Queensland’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and co-author Professor Jonathan Aitchison said the fossil unexpectedly provided the first evidence for […]
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WFS News: Live birth in an archosauromorph reptile
February 16th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: How old were the oldest dinosaurs?
February 11th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev How old were the oldest dinosaurs? This question remains largely unanswered. The natural life span of these long-extinct giants is of interest to scientists, in combination with questions regarding how fast they could grow and how they could obtain sufficient nutrients from their habitat. Palaeontologists at the University […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs, old, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
February 8th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute. The researchers believe that massive amounts of stratospheric soot ejected from rocks following […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaurs and ammonites, killed, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Soot, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Researchers confirm the existence of a ‘lost continent’ under Mauritius
February 6th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have confirmed the existence of a “lost continent” under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that was left-over by the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana, which started about 200 million years ago. The piece of crust, which was subsequently covered by young lava during volcanic eruptions […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: lost continent, Mauritius, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaur (Lufengosaurus) rib bones reveal remnants of 195-million-year-old protein
February 3rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Is fossilized rock all that remains when a dinosaur decomposes? New research from scientists at the University […]
WFS News:Exceptionally preserved fossilized mantle of a vampyropod
February 1st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A trove of exceptionally preserved Jurassic marine fossils discovered in Canada, rare for recording soft-bodied species that normally don’t fossilize, is expanding scientists’ view of the rich marine life of the period. The preservation of the fossils — which include soft body parts as well as shells and […]
WFS News: mio-pliocene Oysters from East coast of India
January 29th, 2017 Riffin WFS News: mio-pliocene Oysters from East coast of India @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Crassostrea Sp. Image copyright @WFS,world Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Crassostrea Sp. Image copyright @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: East coast of India, mio-pliocene, Oysters, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 80 MYO dinosaur collagen confirmed
January 24th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Utilizing the most rigorous testing methods to date, researchers from North Carolina State University have isolated additional collagen peptides from an 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus. The work lends further support to the idea that organic molecules can persist in specimens tens of millions of years longer than originally believed and […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 80 MYO, collagen, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New species of prehistoric palm discovered in Canada
January 22nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A researcher identified a new species of small palm that once grew in Canada after examining a fossil that had been part of an Alberta museum collection for decades. Palms are typically associated with warm, tropical climates. However, this newly […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Canada, new species, prehistoric palm, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Hyolith fossils find place on the tree of life
January 12th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A strange animal that lived on the ocean floor 500 million years ago has been assigned to the tree of life, solving a long-held mystery. The creature has eluded scientific classification since the first fossil was discovered 175 years ago.The extinct hyolith has a cone-shaped shell, tentacles for […]
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