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EvolutionPaleontology

Ancestor of all placental mammals was an insect eater

Placental mammals were early insectivores and lived along with dinosaurs in the Late cretaceous. During cretaceous mass extinction, dinosaurs became extinct and opened...

Animal Diversity

Tapanuli orangutan

Pongo tapanuliensis is a new species of orangutan discovered from an isolated population at the southern range limit of Sumatran orangutans, in Batang...

Ecology

Bat-roost? To curb malaria!

110 years ago, one man set out to rid Texas of Malaria – with the help of what was then a very unlikely...

Animal Diversity

Aye Aye

Aye-Aye is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unusual method of finding food called percussive foraging. It taps on...

Animal Diversity

Pink fairy armadillo

The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) or pichiciego is the smallest species of armadillo. This desert-adapted animal is endemic to central Argentina and...

Animal DiversityEvolution

Giraffes in the world is not a single species, but four

Recent study identified once thought one species of giraffe as four different speceis Carlous Linnaeus described the first Giraffe (Giraffa Camelopardalis) in his ‘Systema...