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The Indian giant squirrel or Malabar giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) is a large multi-coloured tree squirrel species endemic to forests and woodlands in India. It is a diurnal , arboreal , and mainly herbivorous squirrel .
The Giant jars of Assam, is the name given to the several hundred large stone jars which have been unearthed across four sites in Assam, India, [1] covering a 300 square kilometer swath of the state. [2] They range from 1 to 3 meters (about 3.2 to 9.8 feet) tall. [3] Researchers believe they may have been used for ancient human burial practices ...
Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in 1950 recognized D. giganteus as being distinct from Dryopithecus and Sivapithecus and erected a new genus for it, Indopithecus ("ape from India"). [3] Szalay and Delson (1979) found similarities of the Indopithecus material to Gigantopithecus and synonymized the two genera, treating I. giganteus as a ...
According to reports of Northern Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah, Saiduka or Sai'i [1] (sometimes erroneously referred to as Say-do-carah or Saiekare [2] after a term said to be used by the Si-Te-Cah to refer to another group) were a legendary tribe who the Northern Paiutes fought a war with and eventually wiped out or drove away from the area, with the final battle having taken place at ...
Photos show the scaly animal found in a rocky forest of India. | Published June 17, 2024 | Read Full Story Scientists found a “bizarre” animal with “spear-like” appendages in Australia and ...
The Indian giant flying squirrel (Petaurista philippensis), also called the large brown flying squirrel or the common giant flying squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is capable of gliding flight using a skin membrane, the patagium , stretched between front and hind legs.
This list of mammals of India comprises all the mammal species alive in India today. Some of them are common to the point of being considered vermin while others are exceedingly rare. Many species are known from just a few zoological specimens in museums collected in the 19th and 20th centuries.
SMTR leaf-litter skinks were found in dry leaves, under rocks and near waterfalls in a low elevation forest, the study said. Several female skinks were found pregnant with either two or three babies.