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Dinos long gone. .. will their footprints survive?
6+ hour, 41+ min ago (687+ words) HYDERABAD: Nearly 200 million years after dinosaurs left their footprints in what is now Telangana, researchers fear the marks may not survive the next four to five years. Rising water levels, unchecked vegetation, erosion, weathering and human activity are threatening the…...
500millionyearold fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth
2+ week, 31+ min ago (685+ words) Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil record from this time, which falls within the Cambrian period, contains a missing chapter. Palaeontologists refer to it…...
Panaiyur's marine fossils likely 12, 000 years old: ZSI
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (368+ words) THOOTHUKUDI: The marine fossils discovered at Panaiyur in Kulathur South panchayat approximately belong to the middle to late Holocene epoch, i. e. , between 8, 000 and 12, 000 years ago, states a report sent to District Collector Vishu Mahajan by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)…...
After 3, 500-year-old rhino bones, remains of nilgai, black bucks found in Western Ghats
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (279+ words) COIMBATORE: Excavations carried out by the archaeologists of the Department of Maritime History and Marine Archaeology in Thanjavur found bones of wild animals such as nilgai, the largest antelope in Asia, black bucks, four-horned antelopes and gazelles, along with rhinoceros…...
Jurassic era fossil wood donated to AU Museum
10+ mon, 1+ day ago (181+ words) VISAKHAPATNAM: A petrified fossil wood specimen, believed to date back approximately 160 million years, has been donated to the Botany Department Museum at Andhra University. The fossil was handed over by former Chief Conservator of Forests Ampili Bharat Kumar. According to…...