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Gujarat's Balasinor is India's Jurassic Park

New Delhi : The world's second biggest dinosaur excavation site is in Balasinor, also referred to as Vadasinor,  a town located in Kheda district of Gujarat.  Formerly a princely state of the Babi (Yusufzai Pathan)



At least 13 species of dinosaurs lived here, possibly for more than 100 million years until their extinction some 65 million years ago.



The soft soil made hatching and protecting eggs easier for the animals. So well-protected are the fossilised eggs found here that many researchers call them the best-preserved eggs in the world after the ones found in Aix-en-Provence in France.








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