Spellbinding Places to Visit on a Dharamshala Dalhousie Trip

A trip to the beautiful hill stations of Dharamshala and Dalhousie is one of the most refreshing travel experiences in North India. Surrounded by the majestic Dhauladhar Range, this journey offers a perfect mix of natural beauty, spiritual charm, and colonial-era heritage. From peaceful monasteries and scenic viewpoints to lush green valleys and charming hill towns, every corner of this route has something special to offer travelers.

A well-planned Dharamshala Dalhousie tour lets you explore famous places like McLeod Ganj, known for its vibrant Tibetan culture and monasteries, and Bhagsunag Waterfall, a refreshing natural attraction surrounded by hills. As you move toward Dalhousie, the scenery becomes even more picturesque with pine forests, colonial architecture, and breathtaking viewpoints. One of the highlights of the trip is Khajjiar, famous for its lush green meadow and serene lake.

This journey is perfect for nature lovers, photographers, and anyone looking for a peaceful escape in the mountains. Whether you want to explore spiritual sites, enjoy scenic trekking routes, or simply relax in the cool Himalayan air, a Dharamshala and Dalhousie trip promises unforgettable memories.

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Perfectly kept dinosaur embryo from 66 million years ago found, in China :

In 2021, scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken...

The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed “Baby Yingliang.”

"It is one of the best dinosaur embryos ever found in history," University of Birmingham researcher Fion Waisum Ma, who co-authored a paper in the journal iScience.

Ma and colleagues found Baby Yingliang’s head lay below its body, with the feet on either side and back curled – a posture that was previously unseen in dinosaurs, but similar to modern birds.

In birds, the behaviour is controlled by the central nervous system and called “tucking”. Chicks preparing to hatch tuck their head under their right wing in order to stabilise the head while they crack the shell with their beak. Embryos that fail to tuck have a higher chance of dying after a hatching that is unsucessful. “This indicates that such behaviour in modern birds first evolved and originated among their dinosaur ancestors,” said Ma.

An alternative to tucking might have been something closer to what is seen in modern crocodiles, which instead assume a sitting posture with the head bending upon the chest up to hatching.

Oviraptorosaurs, which means “egg thief lizards”, were feathered dinosaurs that lived in what is now Asia and North America during the Late Cretaceous period. They had variable beak shapes and diets and ranged in size from modern turkeys at the lower end to massive Gigantoraptors, that were 8m long. Baby Yingliang measures about 27cm long from head to tail and lies inside a 17cm long egg at the Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum.

Researchers believe the creature is between 72 and 66 million years old, and was probably preserved by a sudden mudslide that buried the egg, protecting it from scavengers for aeons. It would have grown 2-3m long if it had lived to be an adult, and would have likely fed on plants. The specimen was one of several egg fossils that were forgotten in storage for decades.

The research team suspected they might contain unborn dinosaurs, and scraped off part of Baby Yingliang’s eggshell to uncover the embryo hidden within.

“This dinosaur embryo inside its egg is one of the most beautiful fossils I have ever seen,” said Professor Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, part of the research team, in a statement.

Indian gov't is buying a subscription to 13,000 academic journals, and then making them all available to "18 million students, faculty, and researchers" for free.

The cost is $715 million over 3 years. It includes Elsevier, Nature, and AAAS.

Have any other countries done this?

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