Denver Museum of Nature & Science

I've been here nearly a week and our work is humming along pretty nicely right now. We have four workers from the village of Naskal that now know exactly what we're doing and how to do it, which is great. We've collected and sieved about three tons of fossiliferous sediment. Hopefully we'll find some good mammal jaws and teeth in the ...

Today was our third day in the field. We've been working at a locality near the village of Naskal, about 68 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. It's where the first mammal fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs in India were found. Besides me, the field team consists of my GSI colleague (Mr. Anantharaman), our driver ...

It's 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday here in Hyderabad, India. I actually wrote this entry earlier today, but as I was about to send it, the power went out, and I lost everything. Apparently, the city of Hyderabad has regularly scheduled power outages; this one occurred a bit earlier than scheduled. I don't think this sort of ...

Greg Wilson, PhD, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology  During most of the Age of Dinosaurs (Mesozoic Era), India had a much more southerly position than it does today. It was positioned alongside Madagascar and was connected to South America via Antarctica. Then, at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs (Cretaceous Period), India split from these ...