Posts Tagged ‘WFS’

WFS News: Pachycormus: A prehistoric predator discovered in a farm field.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been discovered in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire, England. Discovered beneath a field grazed by an ancient breed of English Longhorn cattle, the fossils are stunningly well preserved. Despite being approximately 183-million-year-old, […]

WFS News: Some species of Plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco’s Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests some species of plesiosaur, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater. Plesiosaurs, first […]

WFS News: Mosasaurus: Apex ocean predator of the dinosaur age

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Mosasaurus was a ferocious predator in the ancient oceans of the Cretaceous period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago). While dinosaurs dominated the land, Mosasaurus used its long tail and stumpy, paddle-like limbs to cruise through the water, devouring all kinds of prey with its massive jaws and sharp, cone-shaped teeth. Mosasaurus is one genus, […]

WFS News:Scientists Find Fossil Of Prehistoric Bear-Dog

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. A group of scientists has found a fossilised lower jaw of a giant creature that one roamed the Earth. Named Tartarocyon cazanavei, it lived in what is now France – between 12.8 and 12 million years ago. Also known as the bear-dog, the fossilised body part of the […]

WFS News: New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaurs found

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. New York: Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great […]

WFS News: Chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms

WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, Athira For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded could give us hints about how active they were and what their everyday lives were like, but the methods to determine […]

WFS News: Tanis: Fossil found of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota. But it’s not just their exquisite condition that’s turning heads – […]

WFS News: Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A handful of ancient zircon crystals found in South Africa hold the oldest evidence of subduction, a key element of plate tectonics, according to a new study published today in AGU Advances, AGU’s journal for high-impact, open-access research and commentary across the Earth and space sciences. These […]

WFS News: Scientists claim they’ve found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Athira Scientists say that the perfectly preserved leg of a Thescelosaurus dinosaur, complete with scaly skin, can be dated back to the mass extinction event because of the presence of debris from the impact, the BBC said. It is widely believed that when the 7.5 mile-wide asteroid, approximately the size of […]

WFS News: Well-preserved new dinosaur fossil found in Alberta

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev six years after miners had discovered it by accident, the best preserved dinosaur fossil was was unveiled at Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. Dinosaur fossils are not more than a rock for the casual observers, before they are put into the museum. However, the observers this time […]