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Visakhapatnam is one of India’s largest coastal cities and combines dense urban settlements with industrial areas, hills, freshwater habitats and the Bay of Bengal coastline.
Schizopygopsis waddellii belongs to the family Cyprinidae, which includes carps and many other freshwater fishes. It is part of a group adapted to the cold, oxygen-poor and highly seasonal waters of the Tibetan Plateau and adjoining Himalayan region.
The calf was born on September 11, 2026, at the Academic Dairy Farm after a laboratory-produced Badri embryo was transferred into a Sahiwal recipient cow. The achievement was announced by the government on September 12.
Named Tetragonula nagalandensis, the species was described by researchers from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, Nagaland University and Central Agricultural University, Imphal. Their study was published online in the journal Oriental Insects on August 24, 2026.
Scientists from the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBFGR), Lucknow, have described the new species as Chromis veneta sp. nov., following detailed genetic and morphological studies of blue-green chromis collected during marine biodiversity research in Lakshadweep.
Strofes Technologies says it has received a work order to install long-range camera surveillance for cheetah monitoring at Virangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve, marking another deployment of Indian-built monitoring technology in a protected area being prepared for the future expansion of Project Cheetah.
The Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), in collaboration with Netherlands-based Addax Data Science, has developed a species-recognition model specifically for the Central Indian landscape. The system has been designed to automatically process camera-trap imagery and classify wildlife into 40 distinct categories.
Named Apristurus drona, the new shark was described by Sweta Beura, K. K. Bineesh and Dhriti Banerjee of the Zoological Survey of India. Their study was published on June 9, 2026, in the taxonomic journal Zootaxa. The researchers propose the common name Arabian slender catshark.
The team selected 12 locations situated between about 8 and 44 kilometres from the Western Ghats. Each sacred grove was paired with a nearby home garden located roughly one to two kilometres away. Fieldwork was conducted during January and February of 2024 and 2025, when insectivorous birds are particularly active in the region.
Thoothukudi’s salt pans are more than industrial landscapes. Their shallow saline waters can provide productive feeding and resting habitat for waterbirds. The combination of open water, exposed mud, microorganisms and other aquatic food resources creates conditions that attract flamingos and numerous smaller migratory species during their seasonal movements.
