Rock paintings reveal species that once roamed India
Mumbai: Sivatherium, a giraffe-likecreature with two pairs of horns and extinct for 8,000 years, onceroamed central and western India. So did the aardvark, an ant-eatingcreature now found only in Africa. The stunning finds have emerged fromancient rock paintings found along the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradeshborder.
They have been hidden away for centuries in 18 rockshelter paintings near Amravati in Maharashtra and have been discoveredby a group of amateur explorers in the past three years - the latestfind was in June. And research into them is now proving eye-opening.
Text and Images: IANS
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