@ 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 […]
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WFS News: Thalattosaur. sea monster with needle-sharp snout
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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 […]
Posted in General Tags: Amber, Lejeuneaceae, Pleurocarpous Mosses, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First skeletal remains of Phoebodus found in Morocco
November 5th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has found the first skeletal remains of Phoebodus—an ancient shark—in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes the fossil and compares it to a modern shark and fish. Ancient sharks […]
Posted in General Tags: Morocco, Phoebodus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil shows trilobites go marching one by one
November 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The trilobites go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah … well, at least they did, some 480 million years ago. New fossils from Morocco show lines of trilobites in orderly queues, likely buried by a storm as they trekked from one place to another under the Ordovician seas […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trilobites, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been found
August 28th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) made the discovery after studying a coprolite taken from a rock-shelter in the country’s mountainous Catamarca Province, where the remains of now extinct megafauna have previously been recovered in stratigraphic excavations. Radiocarbon dating […]
Posted in General Tags: oldest parasite DNA, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: PhD student discovers new species of early dinosaur
August 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A PhD student of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has discovered a new dinosaur species in the University’s vaults, after it has been laying misidentified in a collection for 30 years. The team of scientists, led by PhD Student Kimberley Chapelle, recognised that the dinosaur was […]
Posted in General Tags: new species of early dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: Fossil evidence of core monocots in the Early Cretaceous
July 22nd, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Botanist Dr. Clement Coiffard of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin discovered the oldest, completely preserved lily in the research collection: Cratolirion bognerianum was found in calcareous sediments of a former freshwater lake in Crato in northeastern Brazil. With an age of about 115 million years, Cratolirion is […]
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