In a remarkable discovery by Professor Sunil Bajpai and Post-Doctoral Fellow Debjit Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, a 47 million years old species of snake has been unveiled in Gujarat, believed to be one of the largest snakes to have ever existed on Earth.
The study offers a plausible explanation as to how at least 37 of these marine reptiles came to meet their ends in the same locality, a question that has vexed paleontologists for more than half a century. The research presents evidence that these ichthyosaurs died at the site in large numbe