@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 2013, researchers announced that a pebble found in south-west Egypt, was definitely not from Earth. By 2015, other research teams had announced that the ‘Hypatia’ stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses. (The stone […]
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WFS News:Fossil Teeth Link Beast to Earth’s Largest Shark


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Source: Article by By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer,livescience.com It took nearly 40 years, but researchers have finally collected enough fossil teeth in Alabama to properly identify a previously unknown species of ancient shark — one that was a possible ancestor of megalodon, the largest shark to ever exist. […]
WFS News: Trace Fossils On mars?


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Photographs taken by NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, Lens Imager (MAHLI) may show trace fossils on the Red Planet, according to researcher Barry DiGregorio. Mr DiGregorio, who written several research papers about Mars, believes that the images taken at the start of 2018 could be similar to Ordovician trace […]
WFS News: Origin of unique respiratory system of birds and dinosaurs


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev “The respiratory organs of vertebrates exhibit a tremendous degree of diversity, but the lung-air sac system of birds is truly unique among extant species,” says Dr. Markus Lambertz from the Institute for Zoology at the University of Bonn in Germany. Air sacs are bellows-like protrusions of the lung, […]
WFS News: Evolution of bipedalism in ancient dinosaur ancestors


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have developed a new theory to explain why the ancient ancestors of dinosaurs stopped moving about on all fours and rose up on just their two hind legs. Bipedalism in dinosaurs was inherited from ancient and much smaller proto-dinosaurs. The trick to […]
WFS Dinofact: Eotyrannus


@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Name:Eotyrannus (Greek for “dawn tyrant”); pronounced EE-oh-tih-RAN-us Habitat:Woodlands of Western Europe Historical Period:Early Cretaceous (125-120 million years ago) Size and Weight:About 15 feet long and 300-500 pounds Diet:Meat Distinguishing Characteristics:Small size; relatively long arms with grasping hands About Eotyrannus The tiny tyrannosaur Eotyrannus lived during the early […]
WFS News: Como Bluff:The Dinosaur Graveyard


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Como Bluff is a long ridge with views of sagebrush prairie for as far as the eye can see. It extends roughly east-west, and is about 10 miles long and 1 mile wide. Geologically, the ridge is one limb of an anticline, formed as a result of the […]
WFS News:Tick with dinosaur blood found in amber fossil


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In a discovery which is eerily similar to the opening scenes of Jurassic Park, experts found the fossilised blood sucking parasite trapped in amber. The insect is actually a newly discovered species of tick, which has been called Deinocroton draculi or “Dracula’s terrible tick”, and would have fed […]
WFS News: Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth


@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Yale-led research team has discovered a cache of embryo-like microfossils in northern Mongolia that may shed light on questions about the long-ago shift from microbes to animals on Earth. Called the Khesen Formation, the site is one of the most significant for early Earth fossils since the […]