@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in the 1990s, de-extinction efforts have focused on grand animals with mythical stature, but in a paper published March 9 in the journal Current Biology, […]
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WFS News:Forget mammoths: These researchers are exploring bringing back the extinct Christmas Island rat.
March 18th, 2022 
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No Comments »WFS News:Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees
March 8th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Conca Dellà Museum (MCD), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) have described the new species of titanosaur dinosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei from the remains excavated at the Orcau-1 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fruits of Euphorbiaceae from the Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India.
February 21st, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which likely […]
WFS News: Ankylosaur was sluggish and deaf?
February 14th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ankylosaurs could grow up to eight meters in body length and represent a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, also called ‘living fortresses’: Their body was cluttered with bony plates and spikes. Some of their representatives, the ankylosaurids sometimes possessed a club tail, while nodosaurids had elongated spikes on […]
Posted in General Tags: Ankylosauria, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A giant millipede 326 million years old found
December 23rd, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists say they have discovered the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede on a beach in Northumberland, totally by chance. The millipede, known as Arthropleura, is thought to have been more than 2.5m (8ft) long. It would have weighed about 50kg (eight stone). The fossil segment was first […]
WFS News: New fossils of Australopithecus sediba reveal a nearly complete lower back
November 29th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel Sajeev Adaptations of the lower back to bipedalism are frequently discussed but infrequently demonstrated in early fossil hominins. Newly discovered lumbar vertebrae contribute to a near-complete lower back of Malapa Hominin 2 (MH2), offering additional insights into posture and locomotion in Australopithecus sediba. We show that MH2 possessed a lower back […]
Posted in General Tags: Australopithecus sediba, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Reconstructing the dragonfly and damselfly family tree
November 1st, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Many people hate insects, but the iridescent colors and elegant flying style of dragonflies and damselflies have made them firm favorites worldwide. They have been around in some form for hundreds of millions of years, but the evolutionary history of these relics of prehistoric life has been poorly […]
Posted in General Tags: damselfly, dragonfly, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A New Genus and Species of Grass, Eograminis balticus (Poaceae: Arundinoideae), in Baltic Amber
October 19th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Amber research by the Oregon State University College of Science has produced the first definite identification of grass in fossilized tree resin from the Baltic region, home to the world’s most well-known amber deposits. The specimen studied by George Poinar Jr., named Eograminis balticus, also represents the first […]
Posted in General Tags: Eograminis balticus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Grass, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph?
October 16th, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph? Citation: Kin A, Błażejowski B (2014) The Horseshoe Crab of the Genus Limulus: Living Fossil or Stabilomorph? PLoS ONE 9(10): e108036. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108036 Editor: Alistair Robert Evans, Monash University, Australia A new horseshoe crab species, Limulus darwini, is described from the uppermost […]
Posted in General Tags: Horseshoe Crab, Limulus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Taytalura alcoberi, Fossil of Tuatara-Like Reptile
August 31st, 2021 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Taytalura alcoberi lived in what is now Argentina during the Late Triassic epoch, approximately 231 million years ago. The ancient reptile was a member of Lepidosauromorpha, a large group that includes squamates (lizards and snakes) and sphenodontians (tuataras). “Lepidosauromorphs and archosauromorphs represent the two main branches of the reptile tree of life […]
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