Kasauli, June 13 -- In a spectacular breakthrough that bridges centuries of geological research, a 20-million-year-old fossilised palm leaf has been discovered near the historic Kasauli Club by celebrated geologist Ritesh Arya.
The fossil, unearthed during a field workshop on June 11, is being hailed as one of the most significant paleobotanical finds in the region, breathing new life into forgotten fossil records and reshaping the geological understanding of the Kasauli hills.
The discovery came on the third day of a scientific field workshop organised by the Association of Petroleum Geologists (APG), Dehradun. A team of 14 geologists from ONGC and Cairn, led by Dr. Arya and Jagmohan Singh, was exploring the stratigraphic layers of the K...