Scientists from the Smithsonian and the University of Rhode Island have found unsuspected linkages between the oxidation state of iron in volcanic rocks and variations in the chemistry of the deep Earth. Not only do the trends run counter to predictions from recent decades of study, they belie a role for carbon circulating in the […]
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Lava erupting on sea floor linked to deep-carbon cycle
November 25th, 2014 
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No Comments »Tricky take-off kept pterodactyls grounded
November 24th, 2014 Riffin Tricky take-off kept pterodactyls grounded
Posted in Featured Post Tags: pterodactyls, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, take-off, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Erosion may trigger earthquakes
November 21st, 2014 Riffin Researchers from laboratories at Géosciences Rennes (CNRS/Université de Rennes 1)*, Géosciences Montpellier (CNRS/Université de Montpellier 2) and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/Université Paris Diderot), in collaboration with a scientist in Taiwan, have shown that surface processes, i.e. erosion and sedimentation, may trigger shallow earthquakes (less than five kilometers deep) and favor the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, Erosion, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tectonic plates not rigid, deform horizontally in cooling process
November 19th, 2014 Riffin The puzzle pieces of tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of earth are not rigid and don’t fit together as nicely as we were taught in high school. A study published in the journal Geology by Corné Kreemer, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and his colleague Richard Gordon of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tectonic plates, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil finds behind mall causing excitement
November 17th, 2014 Riffin A dig site, in New Jersey, is yielding exciting finds: the fossils of animals believed killed around the same time the dinosaurs disappeared. Uncovering the mystery has taken a cast of thousands. Behind a strip mall in southern New Jersey, paleontologists from Drexel University are traveling 65 million years into the past. This quarry could […]
How the tortoise’s ribs got embedded in its shell……….
November 15th, 2014 Riffin Through the careful study of modern and early fossil tortoise, researchers now have a better understanding of how tortoises breathe and the evolutionary processes that helped shape their unique breathing apparatus and tortoise shell. The findings published in a paper, titled: Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles, in the scientific journal, Nature Communications, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ribs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tortoise, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Kung fu stegosaur: Lethal fighters when necessary
October 30th, 2014 Riffin Stegosaurs might be portrayed as lumbering plant eaters, but they were lethal fighters when necessary, according to paleontologists who have uncovered new evidence of a casualty of stegosaurian combat. The evidence is a fatal stab wound in the pubis bone of a predatory allosaur. The wound — in the conical shape of a stegosaur tail […]
WFS Dino Diary: Riojasaurus (Rioja lizard)
October 29th, 2014 Riffin Name: Riojasaurus (Rioja lizard). Phonetic: Re-o-jah-sore-us. Named By: Jose Fernando Bonaparte - 1967. Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Prosauropoda, Riojasauridae. Species: R. incertus (type). Diet: Herbivore. Size: About 10 meters long. Known locations: Argentina, La Rioja Province - Los Colorados Formation. Time period: Norian of the Triassic. Fossil representation: Several individuals. Riojasaurus was and […]
Bardarbunga volcano sits on massive magma hot spot
October 26th, 2014 Riffin Spectacular eruptions at Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland have been spewing lava continuously since Aug. 31. Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the destruction of supercontinents and dramatic changes in climate and ecosystems. New research from UC Davis and Aarhus University in Denmark shows that high mantle temperatures miles beneath Earth’s surface are […]
Dinosaur ecology found in fragile amber
October 22nd, 2014 Riffin Ryan McKellar’s research sounds like it was plucked from Jurassic Park: he studies pieces of amber found buried with dinosaur skeletons. But rather than re-creating dinosaurs, McKellar uses the tiny pieces of fossilized tree resin to study the world in which the now-extinct behemoths lived. New techniques for investigating very tiny pieces of fragile amber […]
