@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Artistic reconstruction showing the balbarid kangaroo relative Nambaroo gillespieae (top left) ( Peter […]
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WFS News: kangaroo fossil reveals origin of marsupial hop
February 6th, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: Detection of lost calamus challenges identity of isolated Archaeopteryx feather
February 5th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Abstract Thomas G. Kaye, Michael Pittman, Gerald Mayr, Daniela Schwarz & Xing Xu Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 1182 (2019) In 1862, a fossil feather from the Solnhofen quarries was described as the holotype of the iconic Archaeopteryx lithographica. The isolated feather’s identification has been problematic, and the fossil was considered either a […]
WFS News: Dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski was crushing bones like a hyena
February 3rd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones for salt and marrow, a behavior often linked to mammals but seldom to archosaurs. Most predatory dinosaurs used their […]
WFS News: Pterosaurs: Fur flies over feathery fossils
February 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Two exceptionally well preserved fossils give a new picture of the pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists believe the creatures may have had feathers, and looked something like brown bats with fuzzy wings. The surprise discovery suggests feathers evolved not in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: feathery fossils, Pterosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Antarctanax,an Iguana-sized dinosaur from Antarctica
February 1st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica wasn’t always a frozen wasteland — 250 million years ago, it was covered in forests and rivers, and the temperature rarely dipped below freezing. It was also home to diverse wildlife, including early relatives of the dinosaurs. Scientists have just discovered the newest member of that family […]
WFS News: Koreamegops samsiki,The ancient spider had eyes that shone in the dark
January 31st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev IF YOU COULD time-travel to Korea 110 million years ago, you’d see an eerie spectacle if you walked out at night with a flashlight: Each sweep of your beam would make the landscape sparkle as innumerable spider eyes glinted in the dark. In a new study in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, […]
WFS News: What’s the World’s Largest Dinosaur?
January 29th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The battle for the title of world’s largest dinosaur is complicated. Here’s why: Paleontologists rarely discover an entire skeleton. They’re more likely to uncover bone fragments and then try to estimate a profile of height and weight. Moreover, there are three categories for largest dinosaur on record: the […]
WFS News: Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation
January 27th, 2019 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists. Their study, published online in Nature Geoscience, provides new evidence of a climate feedback that […]
WFS News: Eretmorhipis carrolldongi,Early Triassic marine reptile
January 26th, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, but about 250 million years ago something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is […]
WFS News: T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark
January 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark Scientists examining rock left over from the discovery of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex recently came across a surprise: shark teeth. The huge meat-eating dinosaur, the remains of which were extricated in the 1990s, was not killed by a shark. But, scientists said on […]
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