A team of scientists has discovered the first dragonfly fossil in India from Jharkhand’s Latehar district.
- The fossil is at least 2.5 million years old.
- This is the first dragonfly fossil from India.
- The fossil belongs to the late Neogene period, which dates between 2.5 million and five million years ago.
- The dragonfly is around 3cm long and has a wingspan of around 2.5cm.
- This is, however, much smaller than the fossils of giant dragonflies, which have been found elsewhere in the world.
- A paper on the finding by West Bengal scientists was published in the October 10 edition of Current Science journal.
- Dragonflies were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
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