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
Read MoreFollowing Satyapal Singh’s denial of evolution, a small survey of over 1,700 individuals (both adults and children) from 12 States
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The discovery of adult reptile fossil bones without horns indicates sexual dimorphism. Scientists at the Kolkata-based Indian Statistical Institute have
Read MoreBy Adrian Currie & Derek Turner The coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fishes, with weird appendages that take
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on September 12, 2011 The latest fossil finds of microscopic life about 3.4 billion years ago
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on August 13, 2011 The discovery of Archaeopteryx , the most primitive bird fossil, in 1861,
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on July 28, 2011 The discovery of Archaeopteryx, considered the basal bird, became central to our
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on May 13, 2010 For the first time ever, chemical analysis of Archaeopteryx — a transitional
Read MorePublished in The Hindu on March 9, 2010 If well-preserved snake fossils are rare, the recovery of the nearly complete
Read MoreOur understanding of when fishes evolved into tetrapods — animals with a backbone and four limbs — and began to
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