In the Dhar area of Madhya Pradesh’s Narmada Valley, a group of palaeontologists made the extraordinary finding of 92 closely spaced dinosaur nests and 256 fossilised Titanosaur eggs (one of the largest known dinosaurs).
In-depth details about Cluster of 256 dinosaur eggs discovered in the Narmada Valley
Although other palaeontologists have previously discovered dinosaur nests and eggs in the MP district of Jabalpur and the Gujarati town of Balasinor, this most recent discovery raises the likelihood that the Narmada Valley served as a productive dinosaur hatchery zone millions of years ago.
Between 2017 and 2020, a group of palaeontologists from Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohanpur-Kolkata, and Bhopal conducted fieldwork in numerous villages in the Bagh and Kukshi districts of the Dhar district.
Recently, Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, G V R Prasad, and others published an article on their study in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. The three years of investigation have led us to the important conclusion that the nests and eggs discovered in the villages of the Dhar area date back 66 million years.
It’s entirely likely that the titanosaurs either arrived to this region of the Narmada Valley specifically to lay the eggs or that the eggs were also hatched there. Our eggs have indications of both hatching and not having been hatched, according to Dhiman, the chief researcher, who spoke to this newspaper on Saturday. Since just nests and eggs—not bones—have been discovered, Dhiman continued, “we need to undertake a tiny CT scan for further research.”
In contrast to the norm, the nests discovered in the Narmada valley were near to one another. Between 15 and 17 cm in diameter, the eggs in these nests. Each nest had one to twenty eggs, according to Dhiman.
