Crawling back to sight: skink found after century-long obscurity
A smooth-scaled skink with retractable claws, last seen 90 years ago, has been rediscovered in the forests of the southern Western Ghats in India.
Tagged: Rediscovery
(Wild) Life on the move: synthesis of new distribution records from India published in JoTT till date for the year 2017
India, being one of the 12 biologically megadiverse countries, is a storehouse of wildlife. Just to give a snapshot of India’s biodiversity, it hosts 92,873 species of animals (6.64% of...
Northern Western Ghat: a research niche in the biodiversity hotspot
A biodiversity hotspot is defined as an area with a high level of endemic species occurring only there and nowhere else in the world; with a loss of over 70%...
