The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed plants that arose during the Permian on the great southern continent of Gondwana. These plants went on to become a dominant part of the southern flora through the rest of the Permian, though they dwindled to extinction by the end of the Triassic Period. Glossopteris, the genus […]
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Glossopteris Impressions from Karai Formation
January 17th, 2016 
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No Comments »A ‘kink’ in fault explains long-term growth of the Himalaya
January 16th, 2016 Riffin An international team of scientists has shed new light on the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015, killing more than 8,000 people. A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that a kink in the regional fault line below Nepal explains why the highest mountains in the Himalayas are seen to grow between […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fault, growth, Himalaya, kink, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 2 Comments »Sivatherium: Largest Giraffe
January 15th, 2016 Riffin A prehistoric giraffe that died out 10,000 years ago might have been the largest ruminant that walked the Earth.Victorian scientists believed the creature was a giraffe with a trunk and a “missing link” between mammals.Digital reconstructions of the bones show that while the giraffe was gigantic, the theory that it was as big as an […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Largest Giraffe, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sivatherium, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Machimosaurus: Giant crocodile fossil
January 12th, 2016 Riffin The biggest sea-dwelling crocodile ever found has turned up in the Tunisian desert. The whopper of a prehistoric predator grew to over 30 feet long (nearly ten meters) and weighed three tons.Paleontologists have dubbed the new species Machimosaurus rex and describe it Monday in the journal Cretaceous Research.Although the recovered remains are fragmentary, enough remained […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Giant crocodile, Machimosaurus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ontocetus oxymycterus: white whale fossil
January 9th, 2016 Riffin A 15 million year-old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The authors of the study reanalyzed the large but incomplete Ontocetus oxymycterus […]
The Subway Garnet
January 8th, 2016 Riffin The American Museum of Natural History is a lot of things to a lot of people. To the wealthy philanthropist, it’s a venue for black-tie galas in the shadow of a 94-foot blue whale. To the young, it’s the setting for a movie franchise starring Ben Stiller that single-handedly made the educational diorama relevant again. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Garnet, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Toxic Panthalassa May Have Triggered end-Triassic Mass Extinction
January 6th, 2016 Riffin A mass extinction some 201 million years ago may have been triggered by changes in the biochemical balance of Panthalassa (also known as the Panthalassic Ocean) – the larger of the two oceans surrounding the supercontinent of Pangaea, according to a team of scientists led by Prof Jessica Whiteside from the University of Southampton, UK. […]
Plant fossils from Terani clay bed
January 3rd, 2016 Riffin The Upper Gondwana sediments known as “Sivaganga Formation”, represents the first phase of sedimentation in the Cauvery basin. Outcrops are scanty and isolated due to alluvial cover, rarely exceeds 2km in width and at places less than 50m. The upper Gondwana in Tiruchirapalli area is divisible into two formations – the lower Boulder Conglomerate – […]
Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica
January 1st, 2016 Riffin Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet’s cold surface, but Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed, split, wrinkled and ruptured by the roiling of warmer layers beneath it.The contrast between […]
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December 31st, 2015 Riffin In the film Jurassic Park III, a giant sail-backed dinosaur called Spinosaurus fights a terrestrial Tyrannosaurus—and wins. But a study published online today in Science shows that the 15-meter-long Spinosaurus (shown in this artist’s reconstruction) had adaptations to life both in the water and on land, suggesting that the fierce beast was more of a […]
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