The Geological Society of America (GSA) 2016 Annual Meeting 25–28 September 2016 Denver, United States This year’s five prestigious Pardee Keynote Symposia will scrutinize: • Subsurface energy systems, which account for 80% of total […]
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WFS News: Calciavis grandei, Ostrich relative lived in North America about 50 million years ago
July 14th, 2016 
Riffin Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil specimens dating 50 million years represent a new species that is a previously unknown relative of the modern-day ostrich, according to a new paper co-authored by Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech’s College of Science and part of the university’s Global Change Center. The bird fossils were found more than a decade […]
WFS News: Oesia fossil – an acron worm
July 11th, 2016 Riffin Paleontologists have finally identified two kinds of mysterious fossils misidentified for a century — and traced them both to some phallus-shaped worms that lived 505 million years ago and built themselves some very elaborate homes.Key to solving the mystery was an extraordinary new fossil bed discovered just four years ago and insights gained by the scientists through dissecting […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Giant Blobs of Rock, Deep Inside the Earth ?
July 8th, 2016 Riffin Two massive blob-like structures lie deep within Earth, roughly on opposite sides of the planet. The two structures, each the size of a continent and 100 times taller than Mount Everest, sit on the core, 1,800 miles deep, and about halfway to the center of Earth. Arizona State University scientists Edward Garnero, Allen McNamara and […]
WFS News: Ameloblastoma — a rare, non-cancerous tumor on Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus
July 6th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The dinosaur fossil, estimated to be 69-67 million years old (Cretaceous period), was discovered in an outcrop of the Sinpetru Formation along the banks of the Sibisel River, in the Haţeg County Dinosaurs Geopark, western Romania. The specimen is represented by a pair of well-preserved, associated lower […]
WFS News: Atopodentatus unicus: Earth’s Earliest Herbivorous Marine Reptile
June 27th, 2016 Riffin Nearly two years ago, an international team of paleontologists discovered a bizarre fossil — Atopodentatus unicus, a 10 feet (3 m) long marine reptile that lived in what is now China 247 to 242 million years ago (Middle Triassic). Atopodentatus unicus’ head was poorly preserved, but it seemed to have a flamingo-like ‘beak.’ But according […]
WFS NEWS: Pterosaur flies safely home after 95 million years
June 24th, 2016 Riffin @WFS News: With the help of University of Alberta scientists, a newly described pterosaur has finally flown home. This spectacular fossil material was discovered in a private Lebanese limestone quarry more than a decade ago and has led to what UAlberta paleontologist Michael Caldwell calls “priceless scientific findings.” “This is the first complete pterosaur from […]
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June 22nd, 2016 Riffin An international research team just made a big fossil discovery in Antarctica, unearthing a haul of remains that date between 67 million and 71 million years old. “We found a lot of really great fossils,” Steve Salisbury, of the University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences, said in a press release. “The rocks the were […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Antarctica, Dinosaur-era, fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: ‘Fossil’ meteorite was from asteroid smash-up
June 17th, 2016 Riffin Scientists have identified a completely new type of meteorite. The 8cm space rock is said to be chemically distinct from any of the 50,000 other such objects held in collections.Called Österplana 65, it was found in a limestone quarry in Thorsberg, Sweden, that produces floor tiles.Dating suggests the meteorite’s parent body was involved in a […]
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June 13th, 2016 Riffin A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence as to whether the impact was in fact the cause of their extinction. Researchers from […]
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