When seeking clues about the future effects of possible climate change, sometimes scientists look to the past. Now, a paleobiologist from the University of Missouri has found indications of a greater risk of parasitic infection due to climate change in ancient mollusk fossils. His study of clams from the Holocene Epoch (that began 11,700 years […]
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Fossil found by boy fills gap in reptile evolution
January 14th, 2015 
Riffin A fossil of a lizard-like creature found by a boy on a Prince Edward Island beach is a new species and the only reptile in the world ever found from its time, 300 million years ago, a new study shows. The fossilized species has been named Erpetonyx arsenaultorum after the family of Michael Arsenault of Prince […]
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No Comments »Earth grow a new layer under an Icelandic volcano
December 30th, 2014 Riffin New research into an Icelandic eruption has shed light on how the Earth’s crust forms, according to a paper published today in Nature. When the Bárðarbunga volcano, which is buried beneath Iceland’s Vatnajökull ice cap, reawakened in August 2014, scientists had a rare opportunity to monitor how the magma flowed through cracks in the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Icelandic volcano, new layer, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters deep underground
December 22nd, 2014 Riffin A team of scientists, led by the University of Toronto’s Barbara Sherwood Lollar, has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometres beneath Earth’s surface in rock fractures in Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia. Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to […]
Conotubus fossils provide new clues about fossil formation
December 19th, 2014 Riffin A new study from University of Missouri and Virginia Tech researchers is challenging accepted ideas about how ancient soft-bodied organisms become part of the fossil record. Findings suggest that bacteria involved in the decay of those organisms play an active role in how fossils are formed — often in a matter of just a few […]
Shortening tails gave early birds a leg up
December 16th, 2014 Riffin A radical shortening of their bony tails over 100 million years ago enabled the earliest birds to develop versatile legs that gave them an evolutionary edge, a new study shows. A team led by Oxford University scientists examined fossils of the earliest birds from the Cretaceous Period, 145-66 million years ago, when early birds, such […]
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December 14th, 2014 Riffin An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth. And in doing so, a team of scientists led by Oliver Tschauner, a mineralogist at the University of Las Vegas, clarified the definition of the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Bridgmanite, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Aquilops : Oldest horned dinosaur species in North America
December 12th, 2014 Riffin cientists have named the first definite horned dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous in North America, according to a study published December 10, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrew Farke from Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology and colleagues. The limited fossil record for neoceratopsian–or horned dinosaurs–from the Early Cretaceous in North […]
volcanoes may be much closer than thought
December 10th, 2014 Riffin Credit: Virginia Tech Traditional thought holds that hot updrafts from the Earth’s core cause volcanoes, but researchers say eruptions may stem from the asthenosphere, a layer closer to the surface. Credit: Virginia Tech A long-held assumption about the Earth is discussed in today’s edition of Science, as Don L. Anderson, an emeritus professor with […]
Fossil hunters find skeleton of 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth in North Sea
December 9th, 2014 Riffin Fossil hunters find skeleton of 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth in North Sea
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