@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Fossil Researchers have their hands on a rare fossil from the Pleistocene era thanks to a 10-year-old’s clumsiness.Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon — a massive prehistoric creature with tusks like an elephant — while on a hike with his parents […]
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WFS News: Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old Ice Age fossil
July 20th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: Albertavenator curriei named in honor of renowned paleontologist
July 18th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum have identified and named a new species of dinosaur in honour of renowned Canadian palaeontologist Dr. Philip J. Currie. Albertavenator curriei, meaning “Currie’s Alberta hunter.” It stalked Alberta, Canada, about 71 million years ago […]
Posted in General Tags: Albertavenator curriei, paleontologist, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 2 Comments »WFS News: Can satellites be used as an early warning system for landslides?
July 17th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers are using satellite data to accurately map the movement of the earth before a landslide in a bid to develop a life-saving early warning system. The team from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) have […]
Posted in General Tags: landslides, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Satellites, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
July 16th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into a stressed community inhabited by only a few species. The research was led by Rowan Martindale, an assistant professor at The University […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Facts : The Pleistocene Epoch,Last Ice Age
July 10th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 1.8 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth. There have been at least five documented major […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Epoch, ice age, Pleistocene, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS Facts, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Falling sea level caused volcanoes to overflow
July 7th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long periods of earth’s history. One of them is that the global average temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere usually go hand-in-hand. To put it simple: If the temperatures decline, the CO2values also decrease and […]
Posted in General Tags: Falling sea level, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, volcanoes, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Razanandrongobe sakalavae, the oldest known notosuchian
July 6th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils from Madagascar, published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ by Italian and French paleontologists, begin to fill the gap in a million-year-long ghost lineage. Deep and massive […]
WFS News:Through fossil leaves, a step towards Jurassic Park
July 4th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy and statistical analysis of organic molecules in fossil leaves, they are opening up new perspectives on the dinosaur era. The unique results stem from a collaboration between […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil leaves, Jurassic Park, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: ‘Bulges’ in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions
July 3rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside volcanoes, and found that it can be a reliable indicator of future eruptions. Using a technique called ‘seismic noise interferometry’ combined with geophysical measurements, the researchers measured the energy […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Bulges, predict eruptions, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, volcanoes, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: fossil Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi reveals lifestyle of ancient armor-plated reptile
June 30th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An exceptionally-preserved fossil from the Alps in eastern Switzerland has revealed the best look so far at an armoured reptile from the Middle Triassic named Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi. The fossil is extremely rare in that it contains the animal’s complete skeleton, giving an Anglo-Swiss research team a very clear […]
