The earliest example of an organism living on land – an early type of fungus – has been identified. The organism, from 440 million years ago, likely kick-started the process of rot and soil formation, which encouraged the later growth and diversification of life on land. A fossil dating from 440 million years ago is […]
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Oldest fossil land organism identified
March 4th, 2016 
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No Comments »Fossilized Nervous System found
March 2nd, 2016 Riffin Researchers have found one of the oldest and most detailed fossils of the central nervous system yet identified, from a crustacean-like animal that lived more than 500 million years ago. The fossil, from southern China, has been so well preserved that individual nerves are visible, the first time this level of detail has been observed […]
Patagonia: The land of Jurassic-Era
February 29th, 2016 Riffin Paleontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was first discovered. The site, which spans 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometers) in Patagonia, southern Argentina, came to light this week with the publication of a report in the journal Ameghiniana. “No other place in the world […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Jurassic, Patagonia, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fukuivenator : New Dinosaur from Japan
February 28th, 2016 Riffin A new kind of dinosaur has been confirmed in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, researchers said Friday, bringing the number of species discovered in Japan to seven. According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod that had both primitive and derived features, according to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and Fukui Prefectural University. It […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fukuivenator, Japan, new dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Pentanogmius fritschi: fossil fish with sail
February 23rd, 2016 Riffin A 90-million-year-old fossil fish, which has been on display at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, turns out to be a new species. Research conducted by Kenshu Shimada, Ph.D., professor at DePaul University in Chicago and research associate of the Sternberg Museum in Kansas, reveals the 5.5-foot-long fossil fish to possess a […]
Acanthoteuthis: Jurassic Squid Were Speedy Swimmers
February 21st, 2016 Riffin WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society Three extremely rare fossil specimens of an extinct squidlike animal provide new evidence of the 10-armed creature’s body structure and suggest that it may have been a swift swimmer, a new study finds. The fossils represent Acanthoteuthis, a genus of squid relatives that lived during the Jurassic period and measured between 9.8 and 15.7 inches […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Acanthoteuthis, Jurassic Squid, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Eoleptonema apex : Not Fossils but Chert
February 19th, 2016 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev@ A team of scientists including Carnegie’s Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether microstructures found in 3.46 billion-year-old samples of a silica-rich rock called chert found in Western Australia are the planet’s oldest fossils. The purported fossils have been a heated scientific controversy for many years. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Chert, Eoleptonema apex, Not Fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »selective predation by Cambrian trilobite Rusophycus
February 18th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society Evidence of predatory activity can be observed in the fossil record in the form of drill holes, repair scars, bite marks, and recognizable skeletal fragments in coprolites and preserved gut tracts. It is less common, however, to find fossil snapshots of predators caught in the act of feeding […]
Strychnos : A fossil flower from Tertiary amber
February 16th, 2016 Riffin Researchers today announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an “asterid” — a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potato to tomatoes, tobacco, petunias and our morning cup of coffee. But these two 20-30 million-year-old fossil flowers, found perfectly preserved in a piece of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil flower, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Strychnos, Tertiary amber, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Eotrachodon orientalis: Dinosaur from Appalachia
February 13th, 2016 Riffin WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society An international team of researchers has identified and named a new species of dinosaur that is the most complete, primitive duck-billed dinosaur to ever be discovered in the eastern United States. This new discovery also shows that duck-billed dinosaurs originated in the eastern United States, what was then […]
