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Rajasthan
- Footprints of three species of dinosaurs have been found in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district, proving the presence of the giant reptiles in the western part of the State, which formed the seashore to the Tethys Ocean during the Mesozoic era.
- The footprints, made in the sediment or silt of the seashore, later become permanently stone-like.
- They belong to three species of dinosaurs — Eubrontes cf. giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis and Grallator tenuis.
Burnaby
- It is a Canadian city that has declared September 5 as ‘Gauri Lankesh Day’.
- The city will commemorate the slain activist’s life on ....