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First-Ever Tagging Of Ganges River Dolphin Conducted In Assam

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First-Ever Tagging Of Ganges River Dolphin Conducted In Assam

The Ganges River Dolphin is India’s national aquatic animal. New Delhi: The first-ever tagging of the iconic Ganges River Dolphin, found in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna River system and its tributaries, has been conducted in Assam, the Union Environment Ministry said on Wednesday. The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), in collaboration with the Assam Forest Department and…

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Earthquake 2,500 years ago abruptly changed Ganga river’s course

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Earthquake 2,500 years ago abruptly changed Ganga river’s course

In 2018, geochronologist Elizabeth Chamberlain, an assistant professor at the Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, and her team were in Bangladesh to study the movement of river channels in the Ganga delta. They were exploring an almost 2-km-wide “paleochannel” — a well-preserved mud and sand archive of the river’s ancient course — about 45 km…

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