In cooperation with CONICET in Argentina, Senckenberg scientists examined a spectacular discovery from the UNESCO World Heritage site Messel Pit: A fossil snake in whose stomach a lizard can be seen, which in turn had consumed a beetle. The discovery of the approximately 48-million-year-old tripartite fossil food chain is unique for Messel; worldwide, only one […]
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WFS News: Snake eats lizard eats beetle, Fossil food chain examined
September 8th, 2016 
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No Comments »WFS News: Jurassic ‘sea monster’ fossil emerges in Scotland
September 5th, 2016 Riffin A Jurassic sea monster in all its prehistoric glory has finally re-emerged into the light after 50 years cooped up in a museum storage room in Scotland. Nicknamed the Storr Lochs Monster, the newly revealed creature is actually an ichthyosaur, a kind of extinct swimming reptile that ruled the waves while the dinosaurs reigned over […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 'sea monster', fossil, Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Scotland, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Oldest fossil life found in Greenland rocks
September 3rd, 2016 Riffin @Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The reddish peaks in this 3.7-billion-year-old rock may be structures made by microbes in a shallow ocean—if so, they would be the earliest known evidence of life on Earth.A. Nutman et. al. Nature 536, 7618 (1 September 2016) © MacMillian Publisher Ltd. Hints of oldest fossil life found in Greenland […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Greenland rocks, Oldest fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Rare small Pterosaurs specimen discovered from the age of flying giants
September 1st, 2016 Riffin A rare small-bodied pterosaur, a flying reptile from the Late Cretaceous period approximately 77 million years ago, is the first of its kind to have been discovered on the west coast of North America. Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. The specimen is unusual as most pterosaurs from the Late […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: age of flying giants, Pterosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Is the anthropocene a formal unit of geologic time scale?
August 31st, 2016 Riffin In the March-April issue of GSA Today, Stanley Finney (California State University at Long Beach) and Lucy Edwards (U.S. Geological Survey) tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new “Anthropocene” epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale. The term “Anthropocene” has receive significant coverage in both the geoscience and popular […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: anthropocene, geologic time scale, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: X-raying the Earth with waves from stormy weather ‘bombs’
August 29th, 2016 Riffin Using a detection network based in Japan, scientists have uncovered a rare type of deep-earth tremor that they attribute to a distant North Atlantic storm called a “weather bomb.” The discovery marks the first time scientists have observed this particular tremor, known as an S wave microseism. And, as Peter Gerstoft and Peter D. Bromirski […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Earth, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, weather 'bombs', WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, X-ray No Comments »WFS News: Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria in Dominican and Mexican Amber
August 23rd, 2016 Riffin @WFS News,WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria in Dominican and Mexican Amber Orchids are extraordinary plants that have evolved the strategy of dispersing their pollen in little sacs called pollinia. Pollinia are normally attached by supports (caudicles) to adhesive pads (viscidia) that stick to various body parts of the pollinator. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Amber, Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria, Dominican, Mexican, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: New T Rex fossil discovered
August 21st, 2016 Riffin @ WFS,T Rex,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev A significant new Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has been unearthed by palaeontologists from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and the University of Washington (UW). The find includes a nearly complete skull. Despite the fact it is one of the most iconic and well-known dinosaurs, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, T rex, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
August 19th, 2016 Riffin A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute. The researchers believe that massive amounts of stratospheric soot ejected from rocks following the famous Chicxulub asteroid impact, caused global […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ammonites, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Soot, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Finding Britain’s last hunter-gatherers utilising bone collagen
August 12th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS ,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Finding Britain’s last hunter-gatherers: A new biomolecular approach to ‘unidentifiable’ bone fragments utilising bone collagen doi:10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.014 In the last decade, our knowledge of the transition from foraging, fishing, and hunting to agricultural food production has been transformed through the molecular analysis of human remains. In Britain, […]
