Category: Species in news

A nocturnal flying squirrel has resurfaced in Arunachal Pradesh after going missing for 42 years.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) have identified that peptides (short protein) produced from Budgett’s frog can combat enzymes of disease causing pathogens.

Release of updated Red List of threatened species by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The Koyas have moved on from using traditional Indian Bison horns to palm leaves to craft their ‘Permakore’.

The Egyptian god Thoth was represented by a baboon — which is odd because baboons aren’t native to Egypt. An interdisciplinary team of scientists recently cracked this long-standing mystery.

India has been removed from the CITES’s Review of Significant Trade (RST) for Red Sanders.

Researchers in China, proposed a model to explain how different combinations of mutations give rise to the different colours of the cocoons.

11 nations from Asia and South America have just ratified a landmark document known as the “Global Declaration for River Dolphins.”

Cabomba furcuta, popularly called as Pink Bloom due its massive flowering, has been a new threat to the kole fields, in addition to water hyacinth and Salvinia molesta.

Tamil Nadu and Kerala will join hands to count endangered Nilgiri tahr, as the animal is only found in select habitats in the two States.

Recently, the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) published the report, State of the Rhino, 2023 which documents current population estimates and trends for the five surviving rhino species in Africa and Asia.

A new study establishes a link between greenhouse gases and polar bear survival