@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Researchers have unearthed a giant basal tetrapod fossil in Namibia, revealing new aspects of early land animal evolution and highlighting the importance of southern continents in the study of these ancient species. An international team of paleontologists has discovered a fossilized giant basal tetrapod in Namibia. […]
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WFS News: Gaiasia jennyae : Giant Fossil Discovery in Namibia Challenges Long-Held Evolutionary Theories
August 28th, 2024 
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No Comments »WFS News: Giant Fossil Beans Unlock Secrets of Ancient Rainforests
August 25th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ancient fossil beans the size of modern limes may provide new insight into the evolution of today’s diverse Southeast Asian and Australian rainforests, according to Penn State researchers who identified the plants. The researchers determined that the fossils, which are among the largest seeds in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient Rainforests, Athira, Fossil Beans, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:A new theropod dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan
August 24th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Theropod dinosaurs are one of the most important large groups of dinosaurs, including well-known predators, such as Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, as well as modern birds. A variety of theropods are known from the Mesozoic Era, the age of the dinosaurs. Just as lions today are […]
WFS News: Half-a-billion-year-old slug reveals mollusc origins
August 17th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A half-a-billion-year-old spiny slug has shed light on the origins of animals like oysters and octopuses, researchers have said. Scientists, including experts from the University of Oxford, have discovered a new species of mollusc that lived 500 million years ago. The fossil, called Shishania aculeata, […]
Posted in General Tags: Athira, mollusc origins, old slug, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News : Ammonites’ fate sealed by meteor strike that wiped out dinosaurs
June 29th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found The marine mollusks with coiled shells, one of paleontology’s great icons, flourished in Earth’s oceans for more than 350 million years until they died out during the same chance event that wiped out the […]
Posted in General Tags: ammonites, Athira, Dinosaur, meteor strike, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Shifts in marine community structures can predict future extinctions
June 26th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A study using foraminifera fossils suggests that shifts in marine community structures can predict future extinctions, highlighting the role of historical data in forecasting climate change impacts on biodiversity. For hundreds of millions of years, single-celled organisms known as foraminifera, which are microscopic and hard-shelled, […]
WFS News,Simpsonigobius, new species of fossil fish
June 17th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich groups of marine and freshwater fish in Europe. Spending most of their lives on the bottom of shallow waterbodies, they make substantial contributions to the functioning of many ecosystems. With the identification of a new genus […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, fossil fish, new species, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Simpsonigobius, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists found a pterosaur with vast wingspan
June 15th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Scientists studying a fossil of a flying reptile that excavated from a gravel pit have found it had a vast wingspan of 3.75m (12ft). The pterosaur was dug out from the floor of a quarry near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in June 2022. Scans of its wing […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Pterosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, vast wingspan, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Vasuki Indicus,49 Feet Long – Ancient Giant Snake Discovered in India
June 4th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev New research published in Scientific Reports suggests that a recently identified ancient snake species, named Vasuki Indicus, may have been among the largest snakes ever. This species, which existed approximately 47 million years ago in Gujarat, India, reached lengths of 11 to 15 meters (36 – 49 feet). Belonging […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient Giant Snake, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Vasuki Indicus, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists discover hidden step in evolution of dinosaur feather
June 3rd, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin like reptiles today, thus shedding new light on the evolutionary transition from scales to feathers. The researchers studied a new specimen of the feathered dinosaur Psittacosaurus from the early Cretaceous […]
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