Discover 100 million-year-old fossils at these parks in India

India is home to incredible fossil parks that have been grounds for some of the most brilliant discoveries. These fossils help us understand and gather more knowledge on evolution and time when humans did not exist on earth.

This park spans across a vast area, where many samples have been discovered over a period of time. A visit to this park will give you a glimpse of life-size models of prehistoric animals, made of resin and fibreglass. A walk through the park will transport you back a million years. Then, there is also a museum that visitors can check out to get a close look of vertebrate fossils that were discovered from the hills.

Situated in the Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, this park is noted for its collection of fruit, plant, leaf and seed fossils, which are actually more than 65 million years old! However, the star of the park is the Eucalyptus fossil, which is the oldest one; the other prominent highlights here are a dinosaur egg and a palm tree.

It’s one of the parks that has the most elaborate palaeontology displays, and is run by the Gujarat Ecological Education and Research Foundation (GEER). This dinosaur park is one-of-a-kind and houses a zoo, amphitheatre, botanical garden, as well as camping facilities. One also gets to see massive skeletons of sea mammals. The highlight of this place is that you can camp here and live your Jurassic Park fantasies.

Officially known as Sonbhadra Fossils Park, this fossil park will offer visitors a chance to see and understand tree fossils. As per the records, these are more than 1400 million years old, the traces of that can be traced back to the Proterozoic period. Then, there is another area in the park, which spans across 2.5 sq km and houses algae and stromatolites samples.

It’s a well-known fossil site and one can witness a full-fledged skeleton of a dinosaur, discovered in1959 near the Godavari basin in Maharashtra. Wadadham Fossil Park is also famed for housing the fossils of flora that existed when sauropods, the giant dinosaurs, used to walk in this stretch of the Indian subcontinent. Owing to the same, this park is famed as the only dinosaur site in the Indian subcontinent that houses fossils of both flora and fauna from that time.