Asia’s First Thorny Bamboo Fossil Unearthed in Manipur’s Imphal Valley
Unlike trees, bamboos, which have hollow culms and fibrous tissues, seldom get fossilised. That makes the Imphal Valley bamboo fossil remarkable — not only does it retain structural features such as nodes, internodes, and nodal buds, but it also preserves scars of thorns, details that almost never survive fossilisation
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