Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have come a step closer to deciphering some of the basic mysteries and mechanisms behind earthquakes and how average-sized earthquakes may evolve into massive earthquakes. In a paper published in the Aug. 30 issue of the journal Nature, Scripps scientists Kevin Brown and Yuri Fialko describe […]
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Scientists Pinpoint Hot Spots as Earthquake Trigger Points
September 2nd, 2012 
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No Comments »Vertibral Paleontology questioning facts on Tyrannosaur ?
September 1st, 2012 riffin Scientists have identified several of the “biggest, baddest” theropods, and everyone asks, “Which one is the very biggest?” Giganotosaurus? Spinosaurus? T. rex? Acrocanthosaurus? “I think they’re all reaching the maximum size a two-legged, large-bodied carnivore can get,” explains Peter Larson, T. rex expert (Wyrex is his eighth rex excavation!). “All of these creatures are hovering at around the same size, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tyrannosaur facts, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Why Did Mammals Survive the ‘K/T Extinction’?
September 1st, 2012 riffin Picture a dinosaur. Huge, menacing creatures, they ruled the Earth for nearly 200 million years, striking fear with every ground-shaking stride. Yet these great beasts were no match for a 6-mile wide meteor that struck near modern-day Mexico 65 million years ago, incinerating everything in its path. This catastrophic impact — called the Cretaceous-Tertiary or […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: K T Extinction, mamals, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Comparative cranial morphology of Recent and fossil turtles
August 31st, 2012 riffin Comparative descriptions of the cranial morphology in living and extinct turtles are presented in this paper. Descriptions are arranged by bone rather than by taxon and attempt to document the types and degrees of differences in cranial structures within the Testudines, emphasizing features of systematic interest. Developmental information is also included. 273 figures supplement the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: cranial morphology, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »BIRDS LIVED ALONGSIDE DINOSAURS
August 31st, 2012 riffin An enormous prehistoric bird, which might have resembled a very big ostrich, lived alongside dinosaurs around 83 million years ago, according to new research. The bird, called Samrukia nessovi after the mythical Kazakh Phoenix, lived in what is now Kazakhstan. It is described in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters. The discovery confirms “that big birds were living […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ancient birds, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Dinosaur Diary : Sinocalliopteryx
August 30th, 2012 riffin Sinocalliopteryx (meaning ‘Chinese beautiful feather’) is a genus of carnivorous ciomsognathid theropod dinisaurs from the lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation if China (Jianshangou Beds, dating to 124.6 Ma). While similar to the related Huaxiagnathus, Sinocalliopteryx were larger, and at 2.37 meters (7.78 ft) in length, includes the largest known compsognathid specimen. Sinocalliopteryx was a bipedal predator. The preserved length of the holotype specimen is 237 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Compsognathidae, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sinornithosaurus, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Researchers discover fossils inside T. Rex ancestor
August 30th, 2012 riffin A rare dino-fossil has led researchers at the University of Alberta to a discovery they say may forever change the way the Cretaceous period is looked at. After unearthing two well preserved fossils from China’s Liaoning province, researchers have been able to get a more clear grasp of the eating habits of Sinocalliopteryx, a feathered, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sinocalliopteryx, Sinornithosaurus, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »New theory on the origin of primates
August 29th, 2012 riffin A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that the distributions of the major primate groups are correlated with Mesozoic tectonic features and that their respective ranges are congruent with each evolving locally from […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: primates evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Oldest Occurrence of Arthropods (Fly, Mite) Preserved in Amber
August 29th, 2012 riffin An international team of scientists has discovered the oldest record of arthropods — invertebrate animals that include insects, arachnids, and crustaceans — preserved in amber. The specimens, one fly and two mites found in millimeter-scale droplets of amber from northeastern Italy, are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod ever collected. The […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Arthropode in Amber, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ancient termite-digging fossil added to mammal family tree
August 28th, 2012 riffin A new look at a fossil mammal with powerful front legs for digging is clearing up questions about the origin of a group of strange and scaly modern-day creatures called pangolins. First excavated in Mongolia in the 1970s, the fossil sat in storage for decades until researchers for the Russian Academy of Sciences rediscovered and […]
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