DID YOU KNOW ? ....... Pakistan (Balochistan) has been the home of pre-historic dinosaurs named Baluchitherium or ‘the Beast of Balochistan’ Read more here : After the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs, the bones of the largest land mammal were discovered in 1910 by English paleontologist Sir Clive Forster Cooper. In Balochistan, Cooper discovered bones of extra ordinary size. He suggested that the mammal was the size of a dinosaur and named it as Baluchitherium or ‘the beast of Balochistan’. In the early 1990s, eminent French paleontologist Jean-Loup Welcomme finally discovered that Dera Bugti was the place where Cooper had first unearthed the bones of Baluchitherium. Welcomme came to Pakistan under a project named, Mission Paleontologique Française au Balochistan in connection withPakistan Museum of Natural History. Welcomme contacted Nawab Akber Khan Bugti and told him the story of that spectacular discovery. Bugti not only gave him the permission for further excavations but helped him with every day needs and workers. In 1997, Welcomme discovered the first finger of the Baluchitherium in a stony valley near Dera Bugti. (Info & pics via National Parks of Pakistan)
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:00:00 +0000
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