Her work was funded by the Theodore Roosevelt Grant awarded by the American Museum of Natural History and the Dunbar-Schuchert Grant of Yale University.

Bose's birthplace Rourkela is one of the richest fossil sites in the Indian subcontinent. She grew up in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of neighboring West Benga statel.

"India has a rich history of prehistoric fossils, and our methods could be used to uncover this legacy," said Bose, who also works with the (geology-focussed publisher) Wiley group and oversees the books published by the American Geophysical Union.

She has also been invited to serve on the editorial board of Cornell University's Bulletins of American Paleontology, the oldest paleontology journal in the Western hemisphere, for her work.

"The best way to differentiate between species is by sequencing their deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). However, DNA could not be isolated from these prehistoric fossils. That is why we used mathematical methods to study the diversity and evolution of species," Arnab De, a co-worker and microbiologist, said on the phone.
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