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New Himalayan Snake Species Named After ‘Titanic’ Actor Leonardo DiCaprio

October 22, 2024 admin

Mumbai: A new genus and snake species discovered in the Himalayas has been named after the Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio – the “Titanic” star who is also a passionate environmentalist, officials said on Tuesday. The newly described snake species, ‘Anguiculus dicaprioi’ is distributed from central Nepal to Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh, whereas…

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Gujarat Man Saves Snake’s Life By Performing CPR

October 17, 2024 admin

It was a one-foot non-venomous checkered keelback Vadodara: Believe it or not, a man in Gujarat has saved a snake by performing the life-saving technique known as Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Yash Tadvi, a wildlife rescuer in Gujarat’s Vadodara, said he received a call on his helpline number about a snake being found dead in an…

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Cobra-Scorpion Fight – A Thrilling Face-Off Between Cobra And Scorpion

October 16, 2024 admin

The tension builds as the scorpion inches closer to the snake, with its hood raised. It wasn’t a scene we get to see very often. The Internet has no dearth of videos showing two or more animals fighting it out for supremacy, but a not-so-usual face-off of a snake and a scorpion is currently going…

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Watch Epic Showdown At Patna Airport Runway

August 11, 2024 admin

At first, it appears to be a one-on-one confrontation between a mongoose and a snake. Patna: We have all heard about the battles between snakes and mongooses, but witnessing one in real life is quite rare. Recently, a dramatic encounter took place at Patna Airport, where a snake was attacked by a trio of mongooses…

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First fossilised snake traces discovered in South Africa

October 6, 2023 admin

Snakes have been around for a long time: body fossils found in the UK, Portugal and the US stretch all the way back to the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago. Representative Image. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak/The Hindu Snakes are familiar, distinctive – and often feared – reptiles. And they’ve been around for…

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Neurosurgeon investigating patient’s mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman’s brain in Australia

August 29, 2023 admin

This undated photo supplied by Canberra Health Services, shows a parasite in a specimen jar at a Canberra hospital in Australia. | Photo Credit: AP A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through…

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