@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 […]
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WFS News: Enantiornithes,smallest known prehistoric baby bird
June 28th, 2021 
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No Comments »WFS News: Fossil pollen ‘sneeze’ caught by research team
June 26th, 2021 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in General Tags: Fossil pollen y, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, World Fossil Societ No Comments »WFS News: Angiosperms were around during the Jurassic ?
June 23rd, 2021 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in General Tags: Angiosperms, Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:World’s Oldest Flower Unfurled Its Petals More Than 174 Million Years Ago
June 11th, 2021 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil flower, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
May 18th, 2021 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in General Tags: plate tectonics, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids
April 29th, 2021 Riffin @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. […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons
April 1st, 2021 Riffin @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?
February 28th, 2021 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev
WFS News: Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic
February 10th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Geoscientists have released a video that for the first time shows the uninterrupted movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years. The international effort provides a scientific framework for understanding planetary habitability and for finding critical metal resources needed for a low-carbon future. It reveals […]
WFS News: A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug.
January 20th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug’s physical characteristics — from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal features of its genitalia — […]
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