The Western Ghats are a mountain system in western India. They are a biodiversity hotspot, meaning that they are home to many endemic species found nowhere else on Earth. Researcher Zeeshran Mirza found and described four new species of tarantulas from the Western Ghats. “Most people in India are…
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Meet Neela, the amazing neelakurinji plant and learn about mass flowering.
Learn about a little bird called the grey wagtail and the school kids who celebrate its yearly visits.
What vultures eat and how they eat it may be gross to humans, but it helps make the world that we live in much cleaner and safer than it would be otherwise.
It’s not clear exactly how many Indian wolves live in the grasslands outside Pune. But scientists and conservationists would like to find out!
Meet Tejas Kannan, a 15-year-old student from Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. Tejas enjoys mathematics, playing piano, watching movies, eating Italian food, and eco-friendly travel. Tejas is passionate about protecting the environment. He started an online awareness program about plastic pollution and other things that impact our…
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By Pritha Dey, expert moth-er 1. Prometopidia joshimathensis This drab-colored Geometrid moth was discovered in a semi-urban forest fragment, in the busy tourist town of Joshimath in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India. Dr Pritha Dey along with Dr Axel Hausmann and Dr Dieter…
Virendar Bhardwaj uploaded this photo of a snake in his backyard in India. It was later found to be an undescribed species. Screenshot from Instagram Photo by Virendar Bhardwaj. Many people use social media hoping to get discovered as singers, actors, and comedians. Now a new…
Did you know that the lizards in the Western Ghats mountain region of India do their own stunts? The Western Ghats are called a biodiversity hotspot for species of lizards and amphibians because there are so many endemic species there, meaning species found there and…
A female hoolock gibbon photographed in the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary. Image by Miraj Hussain via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). There is only one type of ape in India, the hoolock gibbon. Several families of hoolock gibbons live in Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in India’s northeastern state of…