Dinosaurs Roamed In India; Nests & Eggs Found In Narmada Valley

Bhopal: Jurassic age dinosaur eggs found in the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh. It proves there was a day when dinosaurs were roaming in Indian jungles.

The researchers said the region falls between the easternmost Lameta exposures at Jabalpur in upper Narmada in valley central India and Balasinor in the west in lower Narmada valley in west-central India.

Researchers from the Delhi University and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Mohanpur-Kolkata and Bhopal have also reported the discovery of ovum-in-ovo or multi-shell eggs in the Bagh and Kukshi areas in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh.

The findings were published in PLoS One research journal this week by Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, and Guntupalli Prasad, among others.

A study of the nests and eggs has revealed intimate details about the lives of the long-necked sauropods that walked the region more than 66 million years ago.