Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India — unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake. But this legless amphibian’s time in obscurity has ended, thanks to an intrepid team of biologists led by University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das [...]
Four newly discovered species of miniaturized chameleons in Madagascar have been categorized among the smallest among the known reptiles in the world. The minuscule lizards measure just tens of millimeters from head to tail. In some cases, they are even small enough to stand on the head of a match, Discovery News reported. The chameleons, [...]
More than 40 species of creatures that scientists believe to be new to science have been discovered in tropical forests of a tiny South American country. An expedition to the pristine tropical forests of Suriname that led to the discovery was led by the charity Conservation International. The collaboration between scientists, indigenous people and students [...]
Dolphins are more intelligent than you thought. They are multilingual — at least in their sleep, scientists have found. A team at University of Rennes claims to have recorded captive dolphins at an acquatic park in France talking in their sleep — in fact, the aquatic mammals have been found to be making whale-like noises, [...]
A scientist has recently discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the world’s tiniest known vertebrate, averaging less than one-third of an inch. The 7.7 millimeters vertebrate, discovered by LSU’s Chris Austin, ousts Paedocypris progenetica, an Indonesian fish averaging more than 8 millimeters, from the record. Austin, leading [...]
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has announced the discovery of a spectacularly coloured snake from a remote area of Tanzania in East Africa. The striking black-and-yellow snake is called Matilda’s horned viper. It measures 60 cm and has horn-like scales above its eyes. The study was authored by Michele Menegon of Museo delle Scienze of [...]
Phrases like being a bird-brain may require a new explanation with researchers in New Zealand having discovered that pigeons can actually count as well as monkeys. Scientists at the University of Otago in New Zealand have shown that pigeons can compare pairs of images picturing up to nine objects and even order them by the [...]
Scientists have discovered that an African lungfish can use its scrawny limbs to ‘walk’, which redraws the evolutionary course of life on Earth from water to land. Extensive video analysis revealed that the lungfish commonly uses its thin pelvic or hind limbs to not only lift its body off the bottom surface but also propel [...]
A psychedelic gecko and a monkey with an “Elvis” hairdo are among 208 new species described last year by scientists in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, a conservation group announced Monday. The animals were discovered in a biodiverse region that is threatened by habitat loss, deforestation, climate change and overdevelopment, the WWF said [...]
World’s smallest frogs were discovered in southeast New Guinea by US researchers. The frogs belong to the genus Paedophryne. The length of an adult frog of this species is only 8-9 mm. This also makes them the world’s smallest tetrapods (non-fish vertebrates), Xinhua reported quoting the journal ZooKeys Monday. The frogs were discovered by Fred [...]
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Lets see how this new information either proves or disprove the current cosmic models of t...
marcos anthony toledo:
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Jase_UK:
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marcos anthony toledo:
What I wonder if the planet circling Gliese 581 is not rotating what would be the effect o...
marcos anthony toledo:
This great news this increases the chances for finding life in the galaxy since red dwarf ...
