Indo-German joint research team has discovered a rare fossil of the limb of a dinosaur at Kas Hill in Lodai area of Kutch in Gujarat, joining Balasinor, the only other site where several such fossils were found earlier. The 10-meter-long herbivore became extinct millions of years ago and the fossil remains found on January 19 were about 130 million years ...
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Researchers Found Two New Nesting Sites of Dinosaurs in Madhya Pradesh
A group of researchers have found 6.5 crore years old fossilized dinosaur eggs in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. The two sites are at a distance of about 8kms from each other. It is said that there are about 15-15 eggs in both of the sites respectively. In 2007 the place drawn attention of the world, when 25 nests of ...
Read More »Scientists Find Rare Giant Dinosaur Tracks
German scientists have found an unusual long trails of footprints of dinosaurs, which they think could be around 140 million years old, it measures four feet across and are about 40-45 centimeters into the ground which is suggesting that the dinosaur would have weighed between 25-30 tonnes. This measurement suggests that the giant dinosaur must be Sauropod, or long necked ...
Read More »Did dinosaur-killing asteroid also trigger largest lava flow as evident in Mahabaleshwar?
The asteroid that slammed into the ocean off Mexico 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs could have triggered devastating volcanic eruptions on earth leading to its pinnacle virtually eroding entire life on earth, said a team of UC Berkeley geophysicists. Interestingly, the impact on India was immense, according to the researchers, known as the Deccan Traps, explaining ...
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