Posts Tagged ‘INDIA’

WFS News: Tharosaurus indicus, an oldest long-necked dinosaur unearthed in India

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossils of the oldest long-necked dinosaur that inhabited Earth about 167 million years ago have been unearthed in India that reveal the country was a “major centre of dinosaur evolution”, experts said. The discovery unearths some of the oldest plant-eating giant reptiles to have roamed the planet. The dinosaur, named Tharosaurus indicus after India’s Thar desert, walked […]

WFS News: Fruits of Euphorbiaceae from the Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which likely […]