{"id":81035,"date":"2024-06-25T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/41000-year-old-ostrich-nest-found-in-andhra-pradesh\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:55:10","slug":"41000-year-old-ostrich-nest-found-in-andhra-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/41000-year-old-ostrich-nest-found-in-andhra-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"41,000-year-old Ostrich nest found in Andhra Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-111266504,imgsize-2159345.cms?fit=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"41,000-year-old Ostrich nest found in Andhra Pradesh\" title=\"41,000-year-old Ostrich nest found in Andhra Pradesh\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"6\"><a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/archaeologists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archaeologists<\/a> have uncovered a 41,000-year-old <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ostrich-nest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ostrich nest<\/a> in <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/andhra-pradesh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andhra Pradesh<\/a>, making it the oldest known nest of its kind globally. This significant find was made by a collaborative team from Vadodara&#8217;s MS University and researchers from Germany, Australia, and the US while examining a fossil-rich site in Prakasam district. The nest originally housed 9-11 ostrich eggs, offering new insights into the region&#8217;s <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/prehistoric-fauna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prehistoric fauna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1-->An ostrich nest typically spans 9-10 feet and can hold 30-40 eggs. The discovery of nearly 3,500 ostrich <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/eggshell-fragments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eggshell fragments<\/a> within a 1&#215;1.5 meter area marks the first evidence of ostriches in <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/south-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South India<\/a> and provides crucial data on the extinction of megafauna\u2014large animals over 40kg, such as horses, elephants, cattle, and hippopotamuses\u2014in India around 40,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the oldest ostrich eggshells were found in the Siwalik Hills of the Himalayas, dating back over 2 million years, and in Katoti, Rajasthan, dating back 60,000 years. <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/devara-anilkumar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devara Anilkumar<\/a>, an assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at MSU, has been leading this project since April 2023.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/41000-year-old-ostrich-nest-found-in-andhra-pradesh\/articleshow\/111266504.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have uncovered a 41,000-year-old ostrich nest in Andhra Pradesh, making it the oldest known nest of its kind globally. This significant find was made by a collaborative team from Vadodara&#8217;s MS University and researchers from Germany, Australia, and the US while examining a fossil-rich site in Prakasam district. The nest originally housed 9-11 ostrich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-111266504,imgsize-2159345.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[72113,72112,72118,3190,3188,72111,72117,72115,72116,72119,37102,72110,2142,72114,31262],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81037,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81035\/revisions\/81037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}