Continental drift may have taken main species to Australia: Dijo Thomas
Ooty: Putting forth his arguments on how Kangaroo could have lived in Indian sub-continent, Mr Dijo Thomas, a Kerala biologist, explained that various evidences over the years on various species of animals across the globe showed that presence of similar and identical species on continents that are now immense distances away.
“The formation of continents showed that about 250 million years ago all five continents in world were almost a contiguous land mass to form the super continent which is otherwise called Pangea.
At that time, all the animal species in the world would have lived and moved around in the adjacent land masses. When the continents drifted away due to geological phenomenon millions of years ago, Australian continent moved to the far south eastern side and Indian sub-continent became housed in the middle of Asia, which made many animal species move to different continents. In case of Kangaroo, the main species stayed in Australia and ecologically adapted to Australian conditions.”
“However, some of the species in Kangaroo family, or a sub-species in it, with its gene poll intact could have stayed back in the Indian sub-continent. After millions of years this sub-species could be beginning to manifest again in western ghats.
Further detail research is necessary on Raktha Athika to know more about how this animal is existing in Western Ghats that stretches between Maharastra and Kerala including parts of Tamil Nadu” he explained.
Another factor to be added in this study is that a species of Kangaroo family ‘Chupacabra’ was found in Latin America. This shows the evolutionary significance, though there was controversy in the scientific world on the existence of ‘Chupacabra’. But, many people in Latin America strongly believed in its existence. In the recent past, I took efforts through F3B-NSPM method (facts, features, factors etc., based-new species scientifically proving method), to prove the existence of Raktha Athika and presented papers on it at the ‘Indian Science Congress in 2017’. I used the same method to prove the existence of ‘Chupacabra’ in Latain America, through the studies on Raktha Athika, Mr.Dijo Thomas added.
