@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev While prehistoric insects encased in amber certainly are fascinating, they usually don’t look all that different from today’s insects. A newly discovered one, however, is so bizarre that it has been placed in its own unique family. Measuring just over 5 mm long, the insect was found in […]
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WFS News: Palaeotanyrhina exophthalma,A fossil insect with 360 degree vision
August 12th, 2022 
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No Comments »WFS News:Scientists Find Fossil Of Prehistoric Bear-Dog
June 20th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. A group of scientists has found a fossilised lower jaw of a giant creature that one roamed the Earth. Named Tartarocyon cazanavei, it lived in what is now France – between 12.8 and 12 million years ago. Also known as the bear-dog, the fossilised body part of the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Bear-Dog, fossil, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms
June 13th, 2022 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, Athira For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded could give us hints about how active they were and what their everyday lives were like, but the methods to determine […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, Chemical clues, dinosaur metabolisms, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tanis: Fossil found of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike
May 29th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it’s not just their exquisite condition that’s turning heads – […]
Posted in General Tags: Asteroid impact, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal
April 27th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published today in AGU Advances, AGU’s journal for high-impact, open-access research and commentary across the Earth and space sciences. These […]
WFS News: Taytalura alcoberi, Fossil of Tuatara-Like Reptile
August 31st, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Taytalura alcoberi lived in what is now Argentina during the Late Triassic epoch, approximately 231 million years ago. The ancient reptile was a member of Lepidosauromorpha, a large group that includes squamates (lizards and snakes) and sphenodontians (tuataras). “Lepidosauromorphs and archosauromorphs represent the two main branches of the reptile tree of life […]
Posted in General Tags: alcoberi, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Evidence of a belemnite’s “killer”
July 14th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev During the early Jurassic period, a squid-like creature was in the midst of devouring a crustacean, when it was interrupted by another marine beast, possibly a shark, that chomped into its squishy side and killed it, a new study finds. The shark swam away, but the crustacean and the […]
Posted in General Tags: belemnite, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Exceptionally small theropod eggs from Japan
July 16th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When most of us think of dinosaurs, we envision large, lumbering beasts, but these giants shared their ecosystems with much smaller dinosaurs, the smaller skeletons of which were generally less likely to be preserved. The fossilized egg shells of these small dinosaurs can shed light on this lost […]
Posted in General Tags: Japan, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Theropod eggs, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The first juvenile dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Arctic Alaska
July 13th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Compared to the osteological record of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, there are relatively fewer remains of theropods. The theropod record from this unit is mostly comprised of isolated teeth, and the only non-dental remains known can be attributed to the […]
Posted in General Tags: Arctic Alaska, dromaeosaurid, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Oldest Green Algae Fossil
June 18th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered fossil species of green algae indicates that photosynthesis originated in plants at least 1 billion years ago, paleobiologists reported in Nature Ecology & Evolution yesterday (February 24). The discovery of Proterocladus antiquus helps pinpoint what has been a very broad estimation of when the chlorophyte group of green algae, the relatives […]
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