@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Lepidopteran scales exhibit remarkably complex ultrastructures, many of which produce structural colors that are the basis for diverse communication strategies. Little is known, however, about the early evolution of lepidopteran scales and their photonic structures. We report scale architectures from Jurassic Lepidoptera from the United Kingdom, Germany, Kazakhstan, […]
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WFS News: Fossil scales illuminate the early evolution of lepidopterans and structural colors
April 12th, 2018 
Riffin WFS News: An Extraordinary Gobioid Fish Fossil from Southern France
April 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An Extraordinary Gobioid Fish Fossil from Southern France Abstract Background The classification of gobioid fishes is still under discussion. Several lineages, including the Eleotridae and Butidae, remain difficult to characterize because synapomorphies are rare (Eleotridae) or have not yet been determined (Butidae). Moreover, the fossil record of these […]
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No Comments »WFS News: A Time-Lapse Bathymetry Study of the Kick-‘em-Jenny Volcano
April 6th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers got a rare opportunity to study an underwater volcano in the Caribbean when it erupted while they were surveying the area. The research, published today in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, provides new insight into the little-studied world of underwater volcanoes. It investigated a volcano named Kick-’em-Jenny (KeJ), […]
Posted in General Tags: A Time-Lapse Bathymetry, Kick-‘em-Jenny, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Volcano, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Correlative microscopy of the constituents of a dinosaur rib fossil and hosting mudstone: Implications on diagenesis and fossil preservation
April 4th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Citation: Kim J-K, Kwon Y-E, Lee S-G, Kim C-Y, Kim J-G, Huh M, et al. (2017) Correlative microscopy of the constituents of a dinosaur rib fossil and hosting mudstone: Implications on diagenesis and fossil preservation. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186600 Editor: Dong Hoon Shin, Seoul National University College of Medicine, […]
WFS News: Patterns of divergence in the morphology of ceratopsian dinosaurs: sympatry is not a driver of ornament evolution
April 3rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The elaborate frills and horns of a group of dinosaurs including Triceratops and Styracosaurus did not evolve to help species recognise each other, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London. It has been suggested that different species that live in the same location may evolve features […]
WFS News: A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens
April 1st, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Citation: Das AJ, Murmann DC, Cohrn K, Raskar R (2017) A method for rapid 3D scanning and replication of large paleontological specimens. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0179264. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179264 Editor: Pasquale Raia, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, ITALY The field of paleontology has transformed in the last few years as […]
WFS News: Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation.
March 31st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth’s atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it. The study by an international team of institutions including Princeton University found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 […]
Posted in General Tags: Earth, evaporites, oxidation., Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Two-billion-year-old, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Baby tyrannosaur fossil unearthed in Montana
March 30th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For now, there are just a few things researchers and students at the University of Kansas want people to dig about the new dinosaur they recently excavated in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. First off, it’s a “fabulous” complete section of the upper jaw with all of its teeth […]
Posted in General Tags: Baby tyrannosaur, fossil, Montana, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA
March 26th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA ( Riffin T Sajeev Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-293786,Volume 49,Issue 6,Pages 388 T219. Challenges in Tectonics:Publisher:Geological Society of America (GSA) :https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/293786 Abstract: The eastern coastal plains of the Indian peninsula are studied meagerly based […]
WFS facts: dating of fossils
March 21st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev So, how do we know how old a fossil is? There are two main methods determining a fossils age, relative dating and absolute dating. Relative dating is used to determine a fossils approximate age by comparing it to similar rocks and fossils of known ages. Absolute dating is used to […]
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