Anupama Chandrasekaran

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How Palaeontologists Pieced Together the Strange Story of Whale Evolution

Anupama Chandrasekaran 26/10/2020

Fossils sites in India and Pakistan feature prominently.

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

Anupama Chandrasekaran 06/02/2019

Stone-tool experiments have revealed that archaic humans came to...

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

Anupama Chandrasekaran 21/10/2018

Unlike countries like the US or even China, India...

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

Anupama Chandrasekaran 10/10/2018

“People have left Chennai because of war, they’ve left...