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Siwalik Hills Fossils Reveal the Prehistoric Megafauna That Lived Alongside India's Earliest Ancestors

The Hills Named After ShivaThe Siwalik Hills stretch in a long arc from Pakistan through northern India and into Nepal, running along the base of the Himalayan range. The name comes from Shiva, "Siva" in Sanskrit, and the range was once thought to be the matted hair of the god…

What Narmada Valley Dinosaur Fossils Revealed About India's Prehistoric Past and Gondwana

What Narmada Valley Dinosaur Fossils Revealed About India's Prehistoric Past and Gondwana

The Femur That Started EverythingIn 1828, William Henry Sleeman, better known for suppressing the Thuggee cult, pulled a massive fossilised femur from the banks of the Narmada near Jabalpur. He sent it to Calcutta, where it was eventually identified as belonging to a creature no living person had ever seen.…

St Mary Islands, Karnataka: The Hexagonal Basalt Rock Formation That Rewrites What a Beach Can Be

St Mary Islands, Karnataka: The Hexagonal Basalt Rock Formation That Rewrites What a Beach Can Be

The Ground Beneath You Is WrongYou have been to beaches before. You know what they feel like underfoot, the give of wet sand, the gravel that shifts, the occasional flat stone. Nothing prepares you for St Mary Islands. The moment you step off the boat from Malpe and onto the…

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Lonar Crater Lake in Maharashtra Is a Saltwater Meteor Scar That Deserves Its Own Trip

What the ground remembersThe water at Lonar is the colour of a bruise healing, greenish, then pink at certain hours, then a flat grey that makes you question whether you imagined the colour at all. You are standing inside a bowl roughly 1.8 kilometres wide and nearly 150 metres deep,…

Inside Borra Caves in Araku: What 150 Million Years of Limestone Does to the Body

The moment the light changesThe entrance to Borra is not dramatic. You walk down a concrete path through the Eastern Ghats, past chai stalls and postcard vendors, and then the temperature drops by about five degrees and the sky disappears. That's it. No fanfare. The cave simply swallows you. What…

Belum Caves: Inside Andhra Pradesh's Underground World That Most Indian Tourists Have Never Heard Of

What Belum Actually IsBelum Caves sit near Tadipatri in Kurnool district, carved by the Chitravati river over millions of years through limestone bedrock. The total mapped length runs to 3,229 metres, with a visitor circuit of roughly 1.5 kilometres open to the public. That makes Belum the longest cave system…

‘Pandavula Gutta designated exclusive Geo-heritage site in Telangana’

Discover the geological marvel of Pandavula Gutta, recognized as Telangana's sole Geo-heritage site.

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Oldest yet fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur found in Rajasthan

Oldest yet fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur found in Rajasthan

In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the middle-Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. They discovered that they had uncovered remains of a sauropod dinosaur, which is the same…

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