21.07.2019 – 27.07.2019
20 million-year-old species of Vine Snake Found in Western Ghats
A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bengaluru trying to study snakes present in the Western Ghats of India. During this research, researchers found a new species of vine snake belonging to an ancient ancestry dating back to between 20 and 30 million years.
Latest discovery of ancient vine snake will not only help to know more about the evolution of vine snakes but also the evolutionary history of the Western Ghats. The Western Ghats are older than Himalayas.
Read further at Jagran Josh
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Nine Tonnes of Elephant Tusks and 12 Tonnes of Pangolin Scales Seized in Singapore
Singapore has seized nine tonnes of elephant tusks, believed to have been illegally gathered from nearly 300 African elephants, in the country’s largest ever haul of ivory.Officials also seized 12 tonnes of pangolin scales belonging to around 2,000 of the endangered mammals. Pangolins are the most trafficked animals in the world.
Read further at Independent
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Tiger Beaten to Death in Uttar Pradesh
Police have arrested four people after a mob of villagers brutally beat to death a tiger that had attacked local people. Mobile phone footage of the incident went viral on social media, and officials said one of nine people injured by the animal earlier had died in hospital. The tiger was from the Pilibhit tiger reserve in Uttar Pradesh. Dozens of armed people surrounded the animal after it entered their village, chased it and bludgeoned it to death with wooden batons and spears. The phone video showed villagers battering the animal as it lay nearly motionless on the ground.
Its corpse was cremated so the animal’s organs did not get into the hands of smugglers, officials said.
Read further at The Guardian
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New Parasitic Plant Discovered from Western Ghats
Reserchers from Pune and Solapur have discovered a new parasitic plant from the Western Ghats named Viscum sahyadricum. The researchers found the parasite plant growing on another parasite on a Jamun tree, making it a’double parasite.’
Read further at Pune Mirror
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