Indian dinosaur princess

June, 5438+October, 2003 10, to be precise, is an old woman with magical cooking skills who lives in an Indian village called Raiyoli. She is famous all over the region: her curry can cure diseases, hypnotize officials, calm anger and inspire calm. One night, the young Princess Arya happened to be wandering in her manor and passed by the old woman's hut. The intoxicating fragrance in the air attracted her. The princess found that the old lady ground spices with a strange mortar and pestle, then mixed them into curry and cooked them slowly on the earthen stove.

The princess asked the old woman her secret. She replied, "mortar and pestle." They are very unusual. Unlike the etched sculptures in country fairs, these sculptures are very rough with strange shades of brown and gray. The old lady said that she found them in the nearby wilderness a long time ago. Mortar is a flat, heavy and sunken rock. The pestle is particularly unique: an oval stone with a curved bottom and fine holes can grind raw materials into powder, which is perfect.

The princess picked up a pestle, looked at it carefully and asked the old lady if she could leave this mysterious tool. The woman refused; Princess insisted. The villagers gathered together, and an hour later, with the consent of the community, it was decided that if the princess replaced the pestle with the pestle of the royal kitchen, she could keep it. The deal was made and the pestle went to the palace.

A few months later, the princess revealed the secret of the old lady's magical curry: a pestle is actually a dinosaur egg.

The restoration of the pestle egg is just an episode in the legend of the princess's discovery and struggle. Scientists in India and the United States and a seemingly abandoned landscape are littered with hundreds of dinosaur bones, teeth, skulls and dinosaur eggs, which was tens of millions of years ago.

Raiyoli is now part of a protected area called Balasinor dinosaur fossil park in Gujarat, western India. People think that the most important place of dinosaur remains is in India. Arya Sulta Babi, a member of the royal family of Barasino Manor, was called "Princess Dinosaur" by various media. She became the protector and promoter of this website, which was discovered in 198 1, but most of it was still ignored.

Arya Sulta Babi, a member of the royal family who once ruled Barlassina Manor, is called "dinosaur princess" because she is interested in protecting and promoting fossil parks. (Vishal Mehta) Dinosaur remains often protrude from the ground. Just like this fossil, it may be a part of the spine of sauropods or a cross section of a rib. (Vichard Mehta) The egg nests of sauropods are similar to a series of rings on the earth. (Mehta, Wichard) Princess Arya walks on the ground of the fossil park, providing sightseeing services for interested tourists. The two-hour journey from Ahmedabad Airport, the capital of Gujarat, to Barasinor is like a journey from 2 1 century to Jurassic. Ahmedabad is called "Manchester of the East" because of its heavy industry, and now it is also proud of its modern glass buildings and multinational food chains such as McDonald's. However, outside the city, expressway is lined with tobacco, cotton and rice fields, and women wear bright saris to work in the fields. In Barlassina, a small town once ruled by Aryan ancestors of Babi dynasty, the past royal history can only be seen in this year's dilapidated buildings. Princess Arya greeted me when I arrived at the Babi Dynasty Palace, which has been transformed into an eight-bedroom hotel. She is in her early forties, wearing a flowing pink shirt and trousers and a scarf with complicated embroidery. It was a warm September afternoon, and she wore earrings, bracelets and a diamond-encrusted ring, which magnified the brilliance of the day. "I hope you can find the palace easily," she said happily.

1883 yellow palace, surrounded by rose bushes, learned some basic knowledge about how to deal with and clean up fossils. But she still feels lack of information. "You see, we have dial-up Internet access. She told me that this is a slow process, and only one hour of browsing time every month will cost us a bomb (an exorbitant number).

So she began to write to paleontologists, geologists and other scientists, asking them to send her her research papers and books, which are all related to Barasino. Thanks to these materials, she identified the pestle of the old lady as a dinosaur egg. They also inspired her enthusiasm for dinosaurs and traveled to her manor. She took great pains to find similar fossils-bones, eggs, crowns and teeth, and now she shows them to tourists in the garden palace.

Barasino Fossil Park is only half an hour's drive from the Palace, and is located in an undeveloped green area on the outskirts of Leijoli village. About 637 families live there by raising cattle or raising cattle. Arya is wearing boots, a hat, a blue cowboy and a shirt. Her diamonds are at home. Dozens of villagers waved when her car passed by. She gave her a tip happily. Against the orange background of the sunset, the life-size dinosaur model in the park looks almost real.

The park is guarded by an old man in uniform. As soon as he saw Arya's car coming, he opened the door. No tickets, no voice guide, no signs. He is the only staff member in the reserve.

This dense green plant is covered with large and small boulders, and the vast vision of this primitive fossil reserve is amazing. But Arya is a performer. She wants to enrich my imagination. She asked me to take part in an exercise to guide me to identify different parts of the dinosaur body in the rocks around us. I was a fiasco. So she took me to a place overlooking a 30-foot-long stone with many fossils protruding from the ground. She said, "You may see the remains of a whole dinosaur in front of you. Then, she will recognize the traces of femur, spine, spine, teeth, scaly skin, and finally the top of the dinosaur. She explained, "You walked around the remains of Rajasthan urs. "Mother Earth has her protection and preservation methods, right?

A country woman was seen in the kitchen using this dinosaur egg as a pestle to grind spices. More commonly, this kind of egg exists in the surrounding landscape, where villagers sometimes eat grass. Other dinosaur remains found in or near Barasinor Fossil Park include a fragment of sauropod humerus, which was discovered by a worker while digging a hole to plant trees. (Vishal Mehta) A part of the lower limb of sauropod, which is a part of the fibula near the rib of dinosaur. All these fossils are preserved in the Garden Palace Hotel. (Vichard Mehta) Until the early 20th century, a new dinosaur was discovered and named Rajasaurus narmadensis, which means "emperor reptile of Narmada". It is a huge, horned, 30-foot (9-meter) long carnivore that lived in the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago. It devours sauropods, which are also herbivores roaming these areas. These remains were pieced together by Jeffrey Wilson, professor and deputy curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan, and Paul Sereno, professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago. They studied the bones collected by GSI research team led by Suresh Srivastava and P.Yadagiri over the years and drew a detailed map of the site. This is the first reconstruction of dinosaur skulls from fossils collected in India, which can now be seen in the Indian Museum in Kolkata.

Scientists believe that Rajasarus may be a distant relative of Abilene Solon, who apparently lives in Africa, South America and Madagascar. They think that in prehistoric times, these areas