Posts Tagged ‘WFS’

WFS News: Shingopana, New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaur

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great Rift Valley […]

WFS News: Evidence of ancient protein?

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, and paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters are still unearthing traces of them today. The minerals in fossilized eggs and shell fragments provide snapshots into these creatures’ early lives, as well as their fossilization processes. Now, researchers reporting in ACS […]

WFS News: Enantiornithes,smallest known prehistoric baby bird

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird dating back to the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago) has been discovered by scientists, which they feel can help them understand how early avians came into the world in the age of dinosaurs. According to researchers at the University […]

WFS News: Fossil pollen ‘sneeze’ caught by research team

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Like capturing a sneeze, researchers including a University of Guelph scientist have recorded the only known example of prehistoric pollen caught in explosive mid-discharge from a fossil flower. The team describes this “freeze-frame” fossilized pollen release — preserved in amber more than 20 million years ago — in […]

WFS News: Angiosperms were around during the Jurassic ?

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev We may recognize our world by its flowering plants and trees, but evolutionarily speaking angiosperms are the new kids on the block, coming after epochs when giant fungus ruled the Earth and nonflowering trees, including cycads and conifers, fed dinosaurs. A controversial study is now suggesting that flowering plants aren’t […]

WFS News:World’s Oldest Flower Unfurled Its Petals More Than 174 Million Years Ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs that lived during the early Jurassic period could stop and smell the flowers if they so desired, according to a new study that describes the oldest fossil flower on record. The flower, named Nanjinganthus dendrostyla, lived more than 174 million years ago, the researchers said. Until now, the […]

WFS News: Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists led by Michael Ackerson, a research geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provide new evidence that modern plate tectonics, a defining feature of Earth and its unique ability to support life, emerged roughly 3.6 billion years ago. Earth is the only planet known to […]

WFS News: A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan’s southern islands. The fossilized discovery yields new information about hadrosaur migration, suggesting that the herbivors migrated from Asia to North America instead of vice versa. […]

WFS News: Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons 

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons  Yebo Liu ;Ross N. Mitchell ;Zheng-Xiang Li ;Uwe Kirscher ;Sergei A. Pisarevsky ;Chong Wang,Geology (2021) https://doi.org/10.1130/G48575.1 Many Archean cratons exhibit Paleoproterozoic rifted margins, implying they were pieces of some ancestral landmass(es). The idea that such an ancient continental assembly represents an Archean supercontinent has been proposed […]

WFS News: New skulls of the basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from Frick, Switzerland: Is there more than one species?

WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev