Anupama Chandrasekaran

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How Palaeontologists Pieced Together the Strange Story of Whale Evolution

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Meet the Archaeologists Chiseling Stone Tools to Learn How Our Forebears Did It

The cidaris fossil, a relic of a slate-pencil sea urchin. Credit: Anupama Chandrasekaran

Found and Lost: An Indian Fossil Hunter’s Chase for Dinosaur Relics

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 2018 Kerala floods, 2015 Chennai floods, Chembarambakkam lake, water scarcity, Stone Age tools, human migration, aridification, landfills, garbage dump, flooding, drought, climate change, paddy cultivation

Tamil Nadu’s Chembarambakkam Lake Foretells an Aridity in the Sands of Time