@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Sea ice is a critical indicator of changes in the Earth’s climate. A new discovery by Brown University researchers could provide scientists a new way to reconstruct sea ice abundance and distribution information from the ancient past, which could aid in understanding human-induced climate change happening now. In […]
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WFS News: New flower from 100 million years ago
January 2nd, 2021 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Oregon State University researchers have identified a spectacular new genus and species of flower from the mid-Cretaceous period, a male specimen whose sunburst-like reach for the heavens was frozen in time by Burmese amber. “This isn’t quite a Christmas flower but it is a beauty, especially considering it […]
WFS News: Vectaerovenator inopinatus,New dinosaur related to T. rex
August 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new species of dinosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton believe four bones found at Shanklin last year belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur. It lived in the Cretaceous period, 115 million years ago, and is estimated […]
WFS News: Evolution of the earliest dinosaurs
August 9th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Present knowledge of Late Triassic tetrapod evolution, including the rise of dinosaurs, relies heavily on the fossil-rich continental deposits of South America, their precise depositional histories and correlations. We report on an extended succession of the Ischigualasto Formation exposed in the Hoyada del Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, […]
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August 7th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Specialized Predation Drives Aberrant Morphological Integration and Diversity in the Earliest Ants Published:August 06, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.106 Extinct haidomyrmecine “hell ants” are among the earliest ants known . These eusocial Cretaceous taxa diverged from extant lineages prior to the most recent common ancestor of all living ants and possessed bizarre […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years
July 29th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years Morono, Y., Ito, M., Hoshino, T. et al. Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years. Nat Commun, 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17330-1 Sparse microbial populations persist from seafloor to basement in the […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Aerobic microbial, oxic marine, sediment, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Exceptionally small theropod eggs from Japan
July 16th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When most of us think of dinosaurs, we envision large, lumbering beasts, but these giants shared their ecosystems with much smaller dinosaurs, the smaller skeletons of which were generally less likely to be preserved. The fossilized egg shells of these small dinosaurs can shed light on this lost […]
Posted in General Tags: Japan, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Theropod eggs, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The first juvenile dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Arctic Alaska
July 13th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Compared to the osteological record of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, there are relatively fewer remains of theropods. The theropod record from this unit is mostly comprised of isolated teeth, and the only non-dental remains known can be attributed to the […]
Posted in General Tags: Arctic Alaska, dromaeosaurid, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 115-million-year-old fossil of new dinosaur species in Brazil
July 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Brazilian researchers announced on Friday the discovery of a 115-million-year-old fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of dinosaur in the northeastern state of Ceara. The “Aratasaurus museunacionali” is a previously unknown species of the medium-sized theropods, meaning it had hollow bones and three-toed limbs. According to […]
Posted in General Tags: Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous , Japan
July 5th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Abstract The Kamitaki Locality in the Albian Ohyamashimo Formation in the eastern Hyogo Prefecture of southwestern Japan is among the richest Lower Cretaceous fossil egg sites in the world. So far, eggshells of […]
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