Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant–insect associations after the end-Cretaceous extinction Michael P. Donovan,, Ari Iglesias,, Peter Wilf,, Conrad C. Labandeira, & N. Rubén Cúneo The Southern Hemisphere may have provided biodiversity refugia after the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction. However, few extinction and recovery studies have been conducted in the terrestrial realm using well-dated macrofossil sites that […]
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WFS News: Fossil clues to aftermath of dinosaur asteroid strike
November 7th, 2016 
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No Comments »Fossilized dinosaur brain tissue identified for the first time : WFS News
October 28th, 2016 Riffin Researchers have identified the first known example of fossilised brain tissue in a dinosaur from Sussex. The tissues resemble those seen in modern crocodiles and birds. An unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter in Sussex, has been confirmed as the first example of fossilised brain tissue from a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinosaur brain, fossilized, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: How Earth’s oldest animals were fossilized
October 20th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The fossils are among the strangest ever found: a corkscrew-shaped tube, an eight-armed spiral, and a mysterious ropelike creature that might have engaged in the oldest known sexual reproduction among animals. They are Earth’s oldest complex organisms, dating back to 571 million years ago, and found on every […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossilized, oldest animals, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Skin impressions of dinosaur found
October 18th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), have discovered in Vallcebre (Barcelona) an impression fossil with the surface of the skin of a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, a period right before their extinction. Its characteristics […]
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October 11th, 2016 Riffin Several 80-million-year-old fossils found in Alabama are from a species of sea turtle that is the oldest known member of the lineage that gave rise to all modern species of sea turtle, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology worked […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, sea turtle, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New species of Jurassic reptile (Ichthyosaur)
October 8th, 2016 Riffin A new species of British ichthyosaur has been identified using skeletal remains which have been on display at the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences for many years. Ichthyosaurs lived during the age of the dinosaurs but were ocean dwelling reptiles that resembled dolphins or sharks.They were fierce predators, some growing up to 15 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ichthyosaur, Jurassic, new species, reptile, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Drepanosaurus ( small reptile with a fearsome finger)
October 4th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T sajeev Newly recovered fossils confirm thatDrepanosaurus, a prehistoric cross between a chameleon and an anteater, was a small reptile with a fearsome finger. The second digit of its forelimb sported a massive claw. Scientists analyzed 212-million-year-old Drepanosaurus arm fossils that were discovered at the Hayden Quarry in Ghost Ranch, […]
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October 2nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Recreating the spectacular pose many dinosaurs adopted in death might involve following the simplest of instructions: just add water. When palaeontologists are lucky enough to find a complete dinosaur skeleton – whether it be a tiny Sinosauropteryxor an enormous Apatosaurus – there’s a good chance it will be […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: death pose, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Watery secret, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Strange reptile fossil (Drepanosaurus) puzzles scientists
September 30th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 200-million-year-old reptile is rewriting the rulebooks on how four-legged animals conquered the world.Newly discovered fossils suggest Drepanosaurus had huge hooked claws to dig insects from bark, much like today’s anteaters in the forests of Central and South America.Scientists say the creature defies the convention on how reptiles […]
WFS News: Triopticus shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes of distant relatives
September 27th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in animals before those dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. In a study in today’s (Sept. 22) issue of Current Biology, a multi-institutional team of paleontologists including Virginia Tech College of Science researcher Michelle Stocker […]
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