Famous Ghughwa National Fossil Park, Dindori Madhya Pradesh

 

National Fossil Park,
Ghughwa , Dindori Madhya Pradesh

Nation fossils park has situated in the village of Ghughwa is the tourist place in  Dindori District Madhya Pradesh. This Park has plants in fossil form that existed in India anywhere between 40 million and 150 million years ago. It is nestled in an area of 75 acres of land where attractive and rare fossils of leaves and trees are waiting to be explored.

What are Fossils?

Usually, when an animal or plant dies, it is very soon eaten up by animals or it decays and becomes part of the soil. In rare cases, when death occurs in an environment that does not facilitate decomposition, the physical remains of the animal or plant get gradually permeated by mineral particles. What is left, then, is a fossil of that animal or plant.

Normally fossils consist of parts of animals or plants, But they could also be preserved marks left by organisms when they were alive, such as footprints, leaf impressions, nests, or faeces.

How to reach

This National park is on a national highway 11, 14 km from Shahpura, District Dindori Madhya Pradesh, and 76 km from Jabalpur.

Best time to visit

Any time of the year except the monsoons.