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A wild leopard mauled six people in a village in rural India, including police and forest rangers. The attack happened yesterday in Prakash Nagar near Siliguri in West Bengal, a village of about 3,000 people.

The leopard was finally tranquilized and died at a veterinarian's office from the barrage of blows from the police and forest rangers.

According to reports, the leopard was the only casualties.














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Geologists have discovered a group of fossilized dinosaur eggs estimated 65 million years old. Group of dinosaur eggs were discovered in a village in the southern province of Tamil Nadu, India.

"We found piles of eggs, and dinosaur body parts. Each layer in the pile consists of eight items, "said M. Ramkumar, a geologist from the University Periyar who led the survey team, as quoted by The Hindu, Thursday (1 / 10) yesterday.

The eggs with a diameter of 13-30 cm which is in the area of about 1.2 meters long was found in a survey funded by the German-Indian Institute of Science.

Fossil eggs in the nest was buried under volcanic ash from eropsi Deccan Plateau, which may have led to population extinction of dinosaurs.

Dinosaur eggs nest location were found along the banks of Cauvery River and down stream. In the watershed was also found the remains of dirt and bones of dinosaurs.

"The discovery in large numbers on the same line indicates that the dinosaurs went back to the site for nesting," said Anbarasu, the survey team members.

Relates to the discovery, the researchers have asked local governments to maintain the site, given the similar findings in North India had looted irresponsible people.