More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, where they built sophisticated cities, invented sewage systems that predated ancient Rome’s, and engaged in long-distance trade with settlements in Mesopotamia. Yet by 1800 BCE, this advanced culture had abandoned their cities, […]
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Demise of Indus Valley civilization could have been a result of climate change.
November 19th, 2018 
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November 18th, 2018 Riffin Islands have been vital laboratories for advancing evolutionary theory since the pioneering work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century. Now, a new paper appearing in PLOS ONE from an international team of investigators describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animals, ecosystem, Eocene, Evolution, islands, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions
November 17th, 2018 Riffin During the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago, birds belonging to hundreds of different species flitted around the dinosaurs and through the forests as abundantly as they flit about our woods and fields today. But after the cataclysm that wiped out most of the dinosaurs, only one group of birds remained: the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: avians, Bird, Dinosaur, rifiin t sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, theropod, WFS, wishbone, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »New species of ‘missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds identified
October 27th, 2018 Riffin Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an international team of scientists, researchers at The University of Manchester have identified a new species of Archaeopteryx that is closer to modern birds in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Archaeopteryx, birds, Dinosaur, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Plate tectonics may have been active on Earth since its origin
October 5th, 2018 Riffin A new study suggests that plate tectonics — a scientific theory that divides Earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock — could have been active from the planet’s very beginning. The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: active, Earth, helium, neon, Origin, plate, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonics, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, year No Comments »Earth’s oldest animals formed complex communities
September 19th, 2018 Riffin A new analysis is shedding light on Earth’s first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota. Ediacaran fossils have a slightly bizarre appearance not shared by any modern animal groups. For decades, researchers believed these enigmatic fossils were ecologically simple. However, borrowing a method from modern ecology — fitting species to relative abundance distributions — […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animals, biota, communities, complex, Earth, Ediacara, fossils, macroscopic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
September 17th, 2018 Riffin Analysis of bones, from what was once the world’s largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought — according to a study published today, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances. A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 6000, activity, Ancient, Bird, Bones, human, island, madagascar, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tropical, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, years No Comments »Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France
September 15th, 2018 Riffin The British mainland was formed from the collision of not two, but three ancient continental land masses, according to new research. Scientists have for centuries believed that England, Wales and Scotland were created by the merger of Avalonia and Laurentia more than 400 million years ago. However, geologists based at the University of Plymouth now […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: collition, continental, england, France, geologists, Geology, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonics, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Global warming: Worrying lessons from the past
September 11th, 2018 Riffin Fifty-six million years ago, Earth experienced an exceptional episode of global warming. In a very short time on a geological scale, within 10,000 to 20,000 years, the average temperature increased by 5 to 8 degrees, only returning to its original level a few hundred thousand years later. Based on the analysis of sediments from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Geology, global, heat, lessons, past, reason, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, scale, Spain, time, warming, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, worrying No Comments »Ancient farmers profoundly changed Earth’s climate!!!
September 9th, 2018 Riffin Millennia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to grow rice. They began to raise livestock. And unknowingly, they may have been fundamentally altering the climate of Earth. A study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides new evidence that ancient farming practices led to a […]
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