@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The discovery nearly two decades ago of nine beautifully articulated vertebrae at Big Bend National Park is shedding new light on a 66 million-year-old sauropod native to Texas and the North American southwest called Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. Paleontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas have […]
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World’s ‘first named dinosaur’ reveals new teeth with scanning tech!
June 16th, 2017 
Riffin Pioneering technology has shed fresh light on the world’s first scientifically-described dinosaur fossil — over 200 years after it was first discovered — thanks to research.
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No Comments »Brazilian carnivorous mammal-like reptile fossil may be new Aleodon species
June 15th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Some Late Triassic Brazilian fossils of mammal-like reptiles, previously identified as Chiniquodon, may in fact be the first Aleodon specimens found outside Africa, according to a study published June 14, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Agustín Martinelli from the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Aleodon, carnivorous, mammal, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, species, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »WFS News : Corals reveals source of 1586 Sanriku, Japan tsunami
June 13th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of researchers, led by Dr. Rhett Butler, geophysicist at the University of Hawai’i at M?noa (UHM), re-examined historical evidence around the Pacific and discovered the origin of the tsunami that hit Sanriku, Japan in 1586 — a mega-earthquake from the Aleutian Islands that broadly impacted the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 1 Comment »Geology, biology agree on Pangaea supercontinent breakup dates
June 12th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found that independent estimates from geology and biology agree on the timing of the breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent into today’s continents. When continents break up, single species are divided into two and drift apart — physically and genetically. Lead […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: biology, breakup, dates, Geology, pangaea, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, supercontinent, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Deep magma reservoirs are key to volcanic super-eruptions!
June 9th, 2017 Riffin A new study shows the importance of large reservoirs in creating Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions and explains why they are so rare.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: eruption, magma, reservoirs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, volcanic, Volcano, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Gondwanagaricites magnificus:The oldest fossil mushroom
June 8th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil preserved in limestone in northeast Brazil makes it a scientific wonder, scientists report in the journal PLOS […]
Why rocks flow slowly in Earth’s middle mantle
June 6th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For decades, researchers have studied the interior of the Earth using seismic waves from earthquakes. Now a recent study, led by Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the laboratory the conditions found deep in the Earth, and used […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: flow, Mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, rock, Rocks, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Antarctic ice rift close to calving, after growing 17km in 6 days, latest data from ice shelf shows
June 5th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that calving of an iceberg is probably very close, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite data. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: antarctic, ice, ice shelf, Riffin T Sajeev, rift, Russel T Sajeev, shelf, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Extreme geothermal activity discovered beneath New Zealand’s Southern Alps
June 3rd, 2017 Riffin Unusually high temperatures, greater than 100°C, have been found close to Earth’s surface in New Zealand – a phenomenon typically only seen in volcanic areas such as Iceland or Yellowstone, USA.
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