PALEONEWS: Indian geologists claims find of 70-million-old dinosaur fossils

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/000306/asia/afp/Indian_geologists_claims_find_of_70-million-old_dinosaur_fossils.html

Indian geologists claims find of 70-million-old dinosaur fossils

(excerpt)
The team from the state-run Geological Survey of India (GSI) said they
came across the fossils in a village some 165 kilometers (102 miles)
from state capital of Shillong while on a trip to explore petroleum
reserves.

The geologists identified the village as Dirang and said it was located
in the rugged West Khasi Hills district of the remote Indian state,
bordering Bangladesh.

"The dinosaur bones were discovered from the coarse-grained sand stones
... in the West Khasi Hills and laboratory tests confirmed the fossils
were about 70 million years old," GSI deputy director B. P.
Bhattacharyya said.
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