@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate ‘phantom’ fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land […]
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WFS News: Five New Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica
March 18th, 2018 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica is one of the harshest environments on the planet. As the coldest, driest continent, it harbors a world of extremes. The powerful katabatic winds that rush from the polar plateau down the steep, vertical drops around the continent’s coast can stir up turbulent snowstorms lasting days or weeks, and the […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle
March 14th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A UNLV scientist has discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist as far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’s mantle. Groundbreaking research by UNLV geoscientist Oliver Tschauner and colleagues found diamonds pushed up from the Earth’s interior had traces of unique crystallized water […]
Posted in General Tags: deep, Earth's mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Unique diamond impurities, water, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Half-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Brains Found in Ancient Predator (Kerygmachela kierkegaardi)
March 12th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev With help from 15 fossils recently discovered in Greenland, scientists are now able to peer inside the brain of an animal that lived 520 million years ago. The extinct species, Kerygmachela kierkegaardi, swam in ocean waters during an evolutionary arms race called the Cambrian explosion. Flanked by 11 wrinkly flaps […]
WFS News: Caudal autotomy as anti-predatory behaviour in Palaeozoic reptiles
March 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Imagine that you’re a voracious carnivore who sinks its teeth into the tail of a small reptile and anticipates a delicious lunch, when, in a flash, the reptile is gone and you are left holding a wiggling tail between your jaws. A new study by the University of […]
WFS News: Baby bird fossil ( Enantiornithes) gives a rare look at avian development
March 8th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossil, which dates back to the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago), is a chick from a group of prehistoric birds called, […]
Posted in General Tags: avian development, Baby bird fossil, Enantiornithes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago
March 4th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Take a good look at this photo: It shows you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on young Earth. The bubbles were photographed and analyzed by researchers studying early life on Earth. Microbes are […]
WFS News: Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced
March 3rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world’s most iconic animal families — namely elephants, and their relatives mammoths and mastodons-spanning millions of years. The team of scientists-which included researchers from McMaster, the […]
WFS News: First detailed 3-D images of a megathrust fault off Costa Rica
February 24th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Geophysicists have obtained detailed three-dimensional images of a dangerous megathrust fault west of Costa Rica where two plates of the Earth’s crust collide. The images reveal features of the fault surface, including long grooves or corrugations, that may determine how the fault will slip in an earthquake. The […]
WFS News: Forecasting the eruption of an open-vent volcano using resonant infrasound tones.
February 22nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has shown that monitoring inaudible low frequencies called infrasound produced by a type of active volcano could improve the forecasting of significant, potentially deadly eruptions. Scientists from Stanford and Boise State University analyzed the infrasound detected by monitoring stations on the slopes of the Villarrica […]
