{"id":6336,"date":"2020-10-10T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2020-10-10T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T15:43:23","slug":"first-time-in-india-scientists-discover-2-5-million-year-old-dragonfly-fossil-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"First Time in India. Scientists Discover 2.5 million-year-old Dragonfly Fossil : October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Dragonfly fossil has been discovered by a team of scientists from West Bengal. The discovery was found in Latehar District, Jharkhand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fossil belongs to the late Neogene period which dates between 2.5 million and 5 million years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dragonfly is about 3 cm long and has a wingspan of around 2.5 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research Paper of the findings was published in the October 10th edition in &#8216;Current Science&#8217; Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DragonflyKOLK10oct2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6338\" width=\"863\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DragonflyKOLK10oct2020.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DragonflyKOLK10oct2020-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DragonflyKOLK10oct2020-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><figcaption>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. (Sourced) \/ pix: hindustimes.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>West Bengal \/ Jharkhand \/ INDIA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Dragonfly fossil has been discovered by a team of scientists from West Bengal. The discovery was found in Latehar District, Jharkhand. The fossil belongs to the late Neogene period which dates between 2.5 million and 5 million years ago. The dragonfly is about 3 cm long and has a wingspan of around 2.5 cm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=6336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Time in India. Scientists Discover 2.5 million-year-old Dragonfly Fossil : October 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,18,8,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-education","category-green-products","category-history","category-nature","category-records-india-national","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}