Even though it was still part of the giant land mass of Gondwana, the outlines of what came to be Greater India finally began to be discernible about 145 million years ago. The mountain range that ...

Rajasaurus narmadensis means “regal lizard from the Narmada”. The period of its existence was during the movement of the isolated tectonic plate that formed the Indian subcontinent. AHMEDABAD: They ...

A Chicago-based paleontologist has discovered a new species of dinosaur -- Rajasaurus narmadensis -- after analysing the bones unearthed from central and western parts of India. Paul Sereno, along ...

Paul Sereno, paleontology professor at the University of Chicago poses with a model of the assembled skull of Rajasaurus narmadensis from the Narmada River area in Bombay, India. The discovery of a ...

The mention of dinosaurs typically evokes images of landscapes such as the Badlands of North America and Patagonia in Argentina. However, long before the Indian subcontinent became the habitat for ...

It was 65 million years ago, that the last of the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. But the fascination with the largest land animal the world has ever known continues unabated. Adding to the corpus ...

For more than two years, the assembly of bones that could serve as a key to India’s lost dinosaur world took up quarters in the basement of a University of Chicago laboratory. Examined under stereo ...

A National Geographic team has discovered a new dinosaur species in India after examining fossil bones found scattered along the Narmada River in the western Indian state of Gujarat, the group said ...

In June, scientists at the Wadadham Fossil Park told the Indian Express that they had discovered fossils of trees on which herbivorous dinosaurs are likely to have fed during Jurassic period. The find ...

The menacing pre-historic predator Rajasaurus drank water from the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh, as did the first man to live in India before some wayward meteors wiped them out permanently from earth.

The 30-something Princess grew up hearing dinosaur stories but became fiercely interested in them only when paleontologists from the Geological Survey of India visited in 1991. AHMEDABAD: They ...