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A remarkable find in an active underground stream has recently been made deep beneath the rolling hills of the Edwards Plateau. During a snorkelling excursion through the low ceilings and dark passages of Bender’s Cave in Comal County, Texas, researchers discovered an enormous ‘lag assemblage’ of Pleistocene megafauna. It is also uniquely important, as it…
The discovery was made by researchers from Dehradun-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) and other institutions. DEHRADUN: In a significant find, paleontologists have discovered aquatic life fossils for the first time in the Shivalik foothills near Mohand on the outskirts of Dehradun — a site previously known exclusively for terrestrial animal remains. Scientists believe…
Everest wasn’t always a mountain! These 200 million-year-old marine fossils prove the Himalaya was once underwater Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised because fossils of marine animals have been documented near the summit of Mount Everest, findings that continue…
Something unusual keeps turning up in marine sediments. These are large crystals of magnetite, formed by biology rather than geology, and preserved for tens of millions of years. Known as giant magnetofossils, they are far bigger than the magnetic particles made by bacteria today, often reaching several microns in size. They appear in rocks dating…
