SHILLONG: In a chance discovery, a job card holder in Jaintia Hills stumbled upon a neatly preserved fossil at Nongbareh near Amkoi in War Jaintia area while she and others were working on a road construction site funded under the MGNREG scheme.
Amkoi is 111 km from Shillong.
The fossil, embedded in a large stone, closely resembled an insect, albeit prehistoric.
Sources informed that since the area is likely to have more well-preserved fossils, the labourers have stopped the construction work as they want scientists to inspect their ‘discovery’.
