“In Jaisalmer fossils, scientists finIn Jaisalmer fossils, scientists find a new plant-eating dinosaur species, name it after Thar desert”, Times of India, August 8, 2023:
“Scientists from IIT-Roorkee and Geological Survey of India (GSI) have discovered the oldest fossil remains of a long-necked, plant-eating dicraeosaurid dinosaur in Jaisalmer, suggesting that India was a major centre of dinosaur evolution.
The study published in ‘Scientific Reports’, an international journal by publishers of Nature, reveals that the remains are 167 million years old and belong to a new species, unknown to scientists thus far.
It has been named ‘Tharosaurus indicus’, the first name referring to the ‘Thar desert’ where the fossils were found, and the second after its country of origin. According to the scientists, fossils of dicraeosauriddinosaurs have been found previously in North and South Americas, Africa and China, but such fossils were not known from India…..”
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