Dinosaur eggs discovered in Tamil Nadu
Salem, Oct 1: Research scholars, archaeologists and geologists of the Periyar University in Salem, Tamil Nadu have found 20 fossilised eggs at a nesting site of dinosaurs.
This is probably the first nesting site in South India that has been traced in the River Cauvery basin region near Ariyalur.
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"We
conducted
a
research,
backed
by
the
Research
Grand
Fund,
at
Arianur
near
Trichy.
We
found
some
20
egg
shells
dating
back
to
6.5
crores
years.
We
came
to
know
that
this
might
be
the
eggs
of
dinosaurs,"
said
Ramkumar,
head
of
the
Geology
Department,
Periyar
University.
"Later, we submitted the photographs of these eggs to a research centre at Pudiyarturiyal in India and to Dr. Kelmer of the International Dinosaur Research Centre. We have received details from all the research centres confirming these as dinosaur eggs," Ramkumar added.
According to Ramkumar, who led a team of researchers, the dinosaurs used to come here to lay eggs every year.
The geologists, who have documented the dinosaurs nesting site in an area of two-square kilometres, confirmed that this is the largest nesting site with so many eggs ever found in India.
ANI