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Animal Adoption Scheme at Delhi Zoo The National Zoological Park has come up with an amazing animal adoption scheme which will offer the animal lovers to participate in wildlife conservation. In this scheme, zoos offer the zoo animals/animal species in their collection to the general public for taking care of them. To adopt an animal, …

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Two rare fireflies discovered in India Researchers have discovered two new species of very rare wasp-like flower flies from north-eastern India and the Western Ghats. The newly described species, Monoceromyia flavoscutata and M. nigra, belong to the Syrphidae family. They were discovered by researchers H. Sankararaman, a Ph.D scholar from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, Anooj …

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New species of snake with ‘bindi’ on body discovered in Assam A team of scientists from India, the United Kingdom, and the United States have discovered a new species of snake in Assam – the first such find from the state in over a century – that is characterised by a red mark on its …