Tagore has a dinosaur named after him. So does the man who dug it up

India Today · India Today Education Desk · 2026-11-07 10:49 UTC

Six decades ago geologists named a newly discovered dinosaur after the great poet Rabindranath Tagore marking his birth centenary A young geologist SL Jain who was part of the team led by Pamela Robinson would later receive an honour of his own a dinosaur genus was named after him This is the curious tale of Tagore039s dinosaur and the palaeontologist whose name entered the fossil record

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