Posts Tagged ‘WFS NEWS’

WFS News: Irritator challengeria two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, a spinosaurid

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Irritator challengeri was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, or more precisely—a spinosaurid. The knowledge of the species is based on the most complete fossil skull known from this group. With the aid of X-ray computed tomographs usually used in the context of medicine or material science, paleontologists […]

WFS News: What role does anoxia play in exceptional fossil preservation?

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold in the case of fossils. A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators found that many of the fossils from Germany’s Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, […]

WFS News:107-million year-old pterosaur bones found in Australia

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones, the oldest of their kind, have been confirmed by researchers in Australia, as reported in Historical Biology. The fossils, discovered over three decades ago, belonged to two distinct individuals, one of which was a juvenile — a first for Australia. The findings enhance our […]

WFS News: The “Rosetta Stone” of Paleontology: 400 Million-Year-Old Fossil Cache Unveils Early Life

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Cutting-edge technology has revealed new insights about a globally famous fossil treasure trove, which may provide critical evidence concerning early life on Earth. Scientists investigating the 400 million-year-old fossil cache, discovered in the remote northeastern region of Scotland, report that their results display a higher level […]

WFS News: Fossil site sheds light on Giant Arthropod Dominance 470 Million Years Ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New fossil site in Taichoute, Morocco, suggests giant arthropods, up to 2 meters long, dominated the seas 470 million years ago. The site offers new insights into the Fezouata Biota and early life on Earth. A new fossil site in Taichoute, Morocco, reveals that giant arthropods dominated […]

WFS News: World’s oldest preserved brain found in prehistoric fish fossil

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The “oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain” has been identified in a 319 million-year-old fish fossil. The fossilised Coccocephalus wildi was found in a coal mine in Lancashire more than a century ago and had been sitting in the archives of Manchester Museum. Research by teams […]

WFS News: Australia’s most intact Cooyoo australis fossil discovered in Richmond with specimen in its belly

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossil of a predator fish that existed more than 100 million years ago has been discovered in north-west Queensland. Experts believe it is one Australia’s most intact fossils of the Cooyoo australis fish — a large carnivore that once swam Queensland’s inland Eromanga Sea. The rare find was stumbled […]

WFS News: 2-Billion-Year-Old Microbe Fossils found

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs. Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of primitive bacteria. These ancient microbes are likely cyanobacteria, but they are unusually large and have weird shapes protruding from them, […]

WFS News: Palaeontologists found Fossil algae, dating from 541 million years ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in China, this 541-million-year-old fossil is the first and oldest green […]

WFS News: Sawfish fossils suggest teeth likely evolved from body scales in ancient fish

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates and became adapted for eating — an idea known as the “outside-in” hypothesis? Or did they evolve independent of scales, originating deep within the oral cavity […]