GUWAHATI The mainland serow, a mammal that appears somewhere between a goat and an antelope, has been recorded at the lowest elevation beyond Bhutan, its natural home. A team of scientists recorded a lone mainland serow at 96 metres above the mean sea level in western Assam’s Raimona National Park. The paper was authored by M. Firoz Ahmed, senior scientist …
A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to recent evidence that mammals roamed that part of South America a lot earlier than previously thought. Christened Orretherium tzen, meaning 'Beast of Five Teeth' in an amalgam of Greek and a local indigenous language, the animal is …
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