Housing 114 Fossil Specimens, India’s Young Paleontologist – Aswatha Biju
“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them.” ― Charles Doolittle Walcott. Can you imagine having fossils as your best friend and living amongst them? However, this girl here prefers them over human beings. Aswatha Biju is India’s budding and young paleontologist . She has a collection of a whopping 114 fossil specimens, including many like vertebrates, invertebrates, chordates & flora. Her journey began when she was just five years old from just an encyclopedia. Once Aswatha came across the picture of an ammonite and mistook it for a shell and later came to know that it was indeed a fossil. Aswatha Biju’s Progress The child prodigy has collected many fossils after identifying and recognizing them, based on self-taught research and knowledge . Apart from this, When the young girl was in grade 5 . She called the Head of the Marine Scie...