In a significant discover, scientists have discovered fossilised stays of lizards and snakes which belong to the late Miocene interval in Himachal Pradesh, India relationship again to 9.1 million years in the past.
The invention has been made in Haritalyangar in Bilaspur district of the State indicating the prevalence of a seasonally moist sub-humid to semi-arid local weather within the area with a imply temperature that was between 15 to 18.6 levels Celsius.
Belonging to the biggest order of reptiles known as squamates, lizards and snakes that are cold-blooded creatures are extremely depending on temperature and weather conditions for his or her distribution and variety. Thus, for scientists, these reptiles are thought-about as glorious indicators of climates that prevailed in the course of the previous.
The existence of lizards is important as there are restricted fossil information of this species in Asia whereas the fossil stays of pythons in South Asia shouldn’t be a lot. Discovery of each the lizards and python signifies a wider distribution of those species in South Asia.
The workforce which documented the Varanus or lizards, a python, a colubrid or a snake and natricid, a kind of viper within the space for the primary time was led by Dr. Ningthoujam Premjit Singh of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun . Others who have been a part of this research have been Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sehgal and Abhishek Pratap Singh (WIHG), Dr. Rajeev Patnaik, Dr. Kewal Krishan and Shubham Deep from Panjab College, Chandigarh, Dr. Navin Kumar, Piyush Uniyal and Saroj Kumar from Indian Institute of Expertise, Ropar in Punjab and Dr. Andrej Čerňanský from Comenius College in Slovakia.
Particulars of the research have been printed final month within the Geobios Journal.
