No one is sure what, exactly, Tyrannosaurus rex did with its short arms. But Argentinian and American scientists have discovered a new dinosaur species that had the same puzzling feature, they reported this week (July 13) in PLOS One. Gualicho shinyae, whose 90 million-year-old fossil remains were found in Patagonia, Argentina, was 25 feet long […]
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WFS News: Dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber
December 13th, 2016 
Riffin Researchers from China, Canada, and the University of Bristol have discovered a dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber.The finding reported today in Current Biology helps to fill in details of the dinosaurs’ feather structure and evolution, which can’t be surmised from fossil evidence. While the feathers aren’t the first […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Popcorn-rocks solve the mystery of the magma chambers
December 7th, 2016 Riffin Since the 18th century, geologists have struggled to explain how big magma chambers form in Earth’s crust. In particular, it has been difficult to explain where the surrounding rock goes when the magma intrudes. Now a team of researchers from Uppsala University and the Goethe University in Frankfurt have found the missing rocks — and […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: magma chambers, Popcorn-rocks, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:New study describes 200 million years of geological evolution
December 4th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev 200 million years of geological evolution of a fault in Earth’s crust has recently been dated. Published in Nature Communications, these new findings may be used to shed light on poorly understood pathways for methane release from the heart of our planet. Tectonic plates, big sections of Earth’s […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 200 million, geological evolution, New study, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Earth’s deepest forearc basin discovered
December 2nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T sajeev Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed. Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Pownall from The Australian National University (ANU) said the find will help researchers assess dangers of future tsunamis in the area, which […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: deepest, Earth, forearc basin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: X-raying the Earth with waves from stormy weather bomb
November 27th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Using a detection network based in Japan, scientists have uncovered a rare type of deep-earth tremor that they attribute to a distant North Atlantic storm called a “weather bomb.” The discovery marks the first time scientists have observed this particular tremor, known as an S wave microseism. And, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, weather bomb, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, X-raying the Earth No Comments »WFS News: Keratin and melanosomes preserved in 130-million-year-old bird fossil Eoconfuciusornis
November 22nd, 2016 Riffin New research from North Carolina State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Linyi University has found evidence of original keratin and melanosome preservation in a 130-million-year-old Eoconfuciusornis specimen. The work extends the timeframe in which original molecules may preserve, and demonstrates the ability to distinguish between ancient microstructures in fossils. Eoconfuciusornis, crow-sized primitive birds […]
WFS News: Asteroid impacts could create niches for early life
November 20th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life. Around 65 million years ago a massive asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico causing an impact so huge that the blast and subsequent knock-on […]
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November 17th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The workmen were building a high school, blasting out the site with dynamite in the southern Chinese city of Ganzhou when they saw it: the newly exposed fossil of a small, child-sized dinosaur. It was well preserved despite the construction, and it struck a curious pose: head […]
Posted in General Tags: Chinese slush pit, oviraptorosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaurs’ rise was ‘more gradual’
November 15th, 2016 Riffin Researchers have discovered two small dinosaurs together with a lagerpetid, a group of animals that are recognized as precursors of dinosaurs. The discovery made in Brazil and reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on November 10 represents the first time that a dinosaur and a dinosaur precursor have ever been found together. The […]
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