Paleontologists discovered 256 herbivorous Titanosaur eggs and unique dinosaur nests in close proximity in the Narmada valley of Madhya Pradesh earlier this year.
Many people in Madhya Pradesh had a change in perspective when they discovered that the tiny, palm-sized “stone balls” they had been worshiping were actually fossilized dinosaur eggs.
When a group of specialists from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow paid a visit, the issue was discovered. Following their investigation, the specialists came to the conclusion that the fossilized eggs belonged to the Titanosaurus dinosaur species.
It came out that several of the people who were digging in Padlya village in the Dhar area of Madhya Pradesh had discovered these’stone balls’. As a result, the 40-year-old local Vesta Mandaloi witnessed the disbelief of a generation.
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For an extended period, his family had been honoring their “stone ball” as a “kuldevta,” which roughly translates to “clan deity,” and believed it to be a protective totem known as “Kakar Bhairav.” ‘Bhairav’ signifies the Lord, and ‘Kakar’ means land. Up until now, the Mandaloi family had thought it would preserve their lands and cattle.
Earlier this year, 256 eggs of the herbivorous Titanosaur and unusual finds of tightly spaced dinosaur nests were reported by paleontologists from the Narmada region in Madhya Pradesh. This week, Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, and Guntupalli Prasad, among others, published the findings in the scholarly journal PLOS One.
The finding suggested that millions of years ago, the Narmada Valley functioned as a breeding ground for dinosaurs. Verma, who is credited with spearheading several dinosaur fossil finds in the Narmada, suggested that the cause of multi-shell eggs would be the mother’s incapacity to locate ideal conditions for egg laying.
