Two blind fishes living in village wells in Assam have been described as new to science, offering a look at a groundwater world that pollution and over-pumping could erase before anyone has catalogued it.
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Scientists have named a newly discovered frog species from Tripura’s Jampui Hills after Padmini Varkey, a Kerala woman known to generations of Thiruvananthapuram students and activists simply as Ammachi.
Scientists have discovered three new spider species in India this July: one in a cave in Meghalaya, one in a forest canopy in Andhra Pradesh, and one in a stretch of grassland in Maharashtra.