For more than 80 years, the Chel snakehead (Channa amphibeus) was thought to be extinct. The fish species, first described in 1840 in India's Chel River system, had gone unrecorded for decades — until ...

The Chel snakehead (Channa amphibeus), a fish species believed to have vanished for over eight decades, has been rediscovered ...

Scientists found a “slender” animal living in caves of the Maharashtra mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Akshay Khandekar via Khandekar, Thackeray, Agarwal, Gangalmale, ...

Researchers have rediscovered a rare fish species presumed to be extinct after it was not seen for more than eight decades. The last sighting of the Chel snakehead, or Channa amphibeus, was last ...

Wildlife researcher and Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s son Tejas Thackeray, along with his team, has discovered a new blind eel in Mumbai. This is the first completely blind ...

On a steep cliff in India, a “dwarf”-like creature perched on the rock wall. The scaly animal’s remote home and camouflaged coloring likely helped it avoid attention — but not entirely. And when ...

Scientists found a small animal with “large” spikes lurking under a rock in India and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Akshay Khandekar via Khandekar, Gaikwad, Thackeray, Gangalmale ...

Scientists found a scaly animal eating frogs in India and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Maharashtra. Photo from Krish Chandran via Unsplash Slithering ...

Scientists found a spiky “dwarf”-like creature climbing on rocks in Tamil Nadu and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Agarwal, Thackeray and Khandekar (2024) On the southernmost tip of ...