Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav launched the "Fauna of India Checklist Portal" and said that the list will be an invaluable reference for taxonomists, academicians, researchers, conservation managers and policymakers.
A massive fossilized skull was discovered by researchers in China's Dragon River region. Scientists now claim that this skull is actually the new species of ancient human.
Eight more species have been added to the national capital's list of snakes after an extensive five-year study conducted by researchers from the Delhi University.
A new species of rare ants has been discovered in Goa's Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary. The new species has been named Vaibhav's Protanilla, after professor Vaibhav Chindarkar who is the head of the zoology department at the Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sakhali.
A report on Indian birds has claimed that over 50 per cent of the 867 species studied exhibit a population decline in the long term, while 146 are at great risk in the short term.
The study, published in the journal Biology Letters, provides the first quantitative evidence for legislative bodies to regulate noise pollution more effectively. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said the noise is one of the most hazardous forms of pollution, the researchers noted
The first known instance of an insect pollinating a flower happened 99 million years ago, according to a study which pushes the earliest documented instance of the process back by at least 50 million years than previously thought
Other spiders are named after Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, Leonardo DiCaprio and David Attenborough
The fossilised leaves recovered from a crater lake in New Zealand have indicated just how Antarctic ice melted 23 million years ago, a scientist revealed on Thursday. The leaf fossils found at Foulden Maar,
Contrary to the popular perception of ‘Jurassic’ meaning only dinosaurs and their kind, scientists in Britain have identified a new species of marine reptiles that lived alongside the huge reptiles that Steven Spielberg made popular
The fossils collected over a century ago by the Scientists helped in identifying a new species of extinct marine reptiles that lived during the age of dinosaurs. The newly identified species of British Ichthyosaur,
A new species of the green tree frog have been discovered by scientists in Australia's largest virgin forest in Queensland. Named Litoria bella, or the Cape York Graceful Treefrog, has distinctive orange hands, feet
Scientists have discovered an extinct reptile species related to crocodile that lived approximately 200 million years ago. Lead researcher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Emily Lessner named the species Vivaron
A team of researchers has discovered that the freshwater crabs popular in ornamental fish markets in China belongs to a new species and genus of freshwater crab. Knowing about the growing demand for eye-catching
Researchers have discovered a ’ghost snake’ — a new species of elusive, pale grey reptiles dwelling in Madagascar. The ghost snake was found within the Ankarana National Park in northern Madagascar in February 2014. The
Honolulu: Researchers while on 25-day research expedition of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have discovered three probable new species of fish. Researchers on Wednesday came up with news species of
London: Snakes lost their limbs when their ancestors evolved to wriggle through burrows, and not in order to live in the sea, according to a new analysis of a 90 million-year-old reptile fossil skull.Comparisons between
Kolkata: During last year, field biologists discovered 176 species of animals from India which are new to science, states Zoological Survey of India. According to official records by ZSI responsible for animal taxonomy under the
Kolkata: Fifteen Indian bird species are part of a list of avians which are evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered.The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Yale University has come out with a study of 100
California, Jun 9: Scientists are worried that the tsunami debris from Japan starting to wash up on U.S. West Coast and Alaska shores represents a new way for invasive species to break the earth's natural
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