@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines. “If it’s organic and old — up to 50,000 years — you date it by […]
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WFS News: Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could ‘rewrite’ ancient events
March 25th, 2020 
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No Comments »WFS News: A newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.
March 19th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet. Living just before the asteroid strike that wiped out giant dinosaurs, the unique fossil, from about 67 million years ago, gives a glimpse into the dawn of modern birds. Birds are […]
WFS News: Debate on shelf life of DNA vs presence of DNA in fossils
March 8th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 75 million years ago, a nest of plant-eating dinosaurs called Hypacrosaurus stebingeri died in what’s now Montana. Their fossils were found in the 1980s, and now an international team of scientists has presented evidence that the old bones contain traces of genetic material. The paper published in National Science […]
Posted in General Tags: fossils, Geology, Riffin T Sajeev, shelf life of DNA, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The Earth was a “water world” of submerged continents
March 4th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev WFS News: And that could have major implications on the origin of life. “An early Earth without emergent continents may have resembled a ‘water world,’ providing an important environmental constraint on the origin and evolution of life on Earth as well as its possible existence elsewhere,” geologists Benjamin […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, submerged continents, The Earth, water world, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: P. antiquus,The oldest green seaweed
March 2nd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A microscopic fossil discovered by Virginia Tech researchers may be key to understanding how modern plants evolved into their current form. At around 1 billion years old, the seaweed microfossil — a type of algae known as Proterocladus antiquus — is the oldest green seaweed known to man. The […]
Posted in General Tags: green seaweed, P. antiquus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, The oldest, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Thalattosaur. sea monster with needle-sharp snout
February 7th, 2020 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An articulated Late Triassic (Norian) thalattosauroid from Alaska and ecomorphology and extinction of Thalattosauria An iguana-like creature with a needle-sharp snout has been confirmed from a fossilized skeleton as a species of the marine reptile thalattosaur previously unknown to science that roamed the coast of what is now […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Thalattosaur, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 300 million year old atmospheric dust
December 29th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dust plays a crucial role in the life and health of our planet. In our modern world, dust-borne nutrients traveling in great dust storms from the Saharan Desert fertilize the soil in the Amazon Rainforest and feed photosynthetic organisms like algae in the Atlantic Ocean. In turn, it […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 300 million, atmospheric dust, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossilized Brains Found
December 19th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Inky stains found in fossils of 500-million-year-old bug-like creatures may be beautifully preserved, symmetrical brain tissue. The fossil find may help lay a heated scientific controversy to rest — the question of whether brains can be fossilized. Scientists discovered these splotchy marks in fossils of the arthropod Alalcomenaeus, an animal […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossilized Brains, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Najash,Fossil of an ancient legged snake
December 8th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles, including how snakes got their bite and lost their legs. The fossil discoveries published in Science Advances have revealed they possessed hind legs during the first 70 million years of their evolution. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ancient legged snake, fossil, Najash, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber
December 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber Citation: Heinrichs J, Scheben A, Bechteler J, Lee GE, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Hedenäs L, et al. (2016) Crown Group Lejeuneaceae and Pleurocarpous Mosses in Early Eocene (Ypresian) Indian Amber. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156301. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156301 Editor: William Oki Wong, Institute […]
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