@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs Citation: D’Emic MD, Whitlock JA, Smith KM, Fisher DC, Wilson JA (2013) Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069235 Editor: Alistair Robert Evans, Monash University, Australia Abstract Background Tooth replacement rate can be calculated […]
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WFS News: Linking Geology and Microbiology


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Linking Geology and Microbiology: Inactive Pockmarks Affect Sediment Microbial Community Structure Citation: Haverkamp THA, Hammer Ø, Jakobsen KS (2014) Linking Geology and Microbiology: Inactive Pockmarks Affect Sediment Microbial Community Structure. PLoS ONE 9(1): e85990. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085990 Editor: Hauke Smidt, Wageningen University, Netherlands Pockmarks are geological features that are found on the […]
WFS News: Synthetic microorganisms and study of evolution


@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists at Scripps Research and their collaborators have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have lived billions of years ago, allowing them to explore questions about how life evolved from inanimate molecules to single-celled organisms to the complex, multicellular lifeforms we see […]
WFS News: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify […]
WFS News: Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa


@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four metres […]
WFS News:Description of climate-envelope models


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Climate-envelope models attempt to capture the climatic conditions that constrain the potential niche of a species, and use them to predict the probability of occurrence of species in an area. There are many different types of climate-envelope models [1], distinguished among other things by the type of data […]
WFS News: Fossil of Oldest Flowering Tree in North America Discovered


@WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev During the late Cretaceous period, northeastern Utah was home to pterosaurs, duck-billed dinosaurs and fearsome therizinosaurs with claws that would put Edward Scissorhands to shame. Now, add to that list giant flowering trees. A fossil log found in the Mancos Shale of Utah reveals that huge angiosperms were part […]
Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal


Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and was oval shaped with rib-like […]
WFS News: Ancient ‘Alien’ Wasp Hijacked Fly Pupae, Ate the Flies Inside


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized fly pupae are about as exciting to look at as a handful of dingy, stale Rice Krispies. But despite their humdrum appearance, fossil pupae can hold fascinating secrets inside; in some cases, they preserve deadly examples of insect parasitism. Scientists recently investigated hundreds of fossil pupae — […]