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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

At a cave in southern India, a “dwarf”-like creature gripped the rock wall with “long” fingers. Something about the clawed animal caught the attention of visiting scientists. It turned out to be a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...