A 24-million-year-old leaf from Assam rewrites the story of a Southeast Asian plant

Guwahati: A single fossil leaf buried for nearly 24 million years in Assam’s Makum Coalfield has given scientists a new clue to why a plant lineage found today only in the peat swamps of Southeast Asia disappeared from the Indian subcontinent. The fossil, discovered in the late Oligocene deposits o…
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