{"id":360391,"date":"2026-04-09T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=360391"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:29:18","slug":"gourami-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gourami-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourami Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Scientists discovered freshwater fish fossils in Saharanpur, including first gourami fossil in India and second globally, indicating a Pliocene ecosystem.<\/p>\n<h2>About Gourami Fossils<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360400\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-360400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-News-Point.jpg?resize=416%2C279&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gourami Fossils\" width=\"416\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-News-Point.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-News-Point.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-News-Point.jpg?w=902&amp;ssl=1 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; News Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Gourami fossils <\/strong>are<strong> freshwater fish remains<\/strong> identified through <strong>otolith structures<\/strong> from ancient ecosystems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discovered by:<\/strong> The fossils were discovered by scientists led by <strong>Dr. Ningthoujam Premjit Singh<\/strong> of the <strong>Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: The fossils were found in the <strong>Siwalik foothills at Mohand in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geological Era:<\/strong> The fossils belong to the <strong>Pliocene Epoch, dated about 4.8 million years ago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rarity<\/strong>: This is the <strong>first record of a Gourami fossil in India<\/strong> and only the <strong>second globally (the first was in Sumatra ).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fossil Type:<\/strong> The fossils are <strong>otoliths<\/strong>, which are <strong>calcium carbonate structures<\/strong> used for <strong>hearing and balance in fishes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Findings<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Structured Food Chain:<\/strong> The presence of snakeheads, gouramis, and gobies shows a <strong>clear food chain,<\/strong> where smaller fish acted as prey and snakeheads acted as predators.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Freshwater Ecosystem:<\/strong> The fossils indicate a calm and stable freshwater body surrounded by dense vegetation during the Pliocene period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Scientists discovered freshwater fish fossils in Saharanpur, including first gourami fossil in India and second globally, indicating a Pliocene ecosystem. About Gourami Fossils The Gourami fossils are freshwater fish remains identified through otolith structures from ancient ecosystems. Discovered by: The fossils were discovered by scientists led by Dr. Ningthoujam Premjit Singh of the Wadia&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gourami-fossils\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gourami Fossils<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-360391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}