Withstanding the vagaries of time for several millennia, a 175 million-year-old fossil wood stands at a corner in the Osmania University College of Science, Saifabad, helping students in honing their skills and gaining expertise in the subject of geology.
Surprisingly, very few know about this fossil wood belonging to the Jurassic Sediments of Pranahita Godavari Basin in the erstwhile Adilabad district. It was gifted to the college by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Southern Region, Hyderabad. The fossil conifer wood of the extinct species of araucarioxylon arizonicum was put on display and unveiled by the then vice-chancellor of Osmania University, V. Ramakistayya on February 5, 1998.
