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Breath Underwater

19 Jul 2023

Animals With Best Capacity To Hold Breath Underwater

Animals who mostly live in the water and have lungs, like marine mammals, birds, and reptiles can’t filter oxygen from the water, so they have to surface to breathe in and out. Here are the few animals that are best at holding their breath underwater.

29 Nov 2021

Scary! Lizard with 2 heads and blue tongue gives chills to internet- Watch

The video has garnered over 69k likes Zookeeper, Jay Brewer who has 5.7 mn followers on Instagram

24 Nov 2020

Not just lizards, but these reptiles can also regrow their tails

The findings are published in the journal Scientific Reports. Team of scientists used advanced imaging techniques combined with demonstrated methods of studying anatomy and tissue organization to examine the structure of these regrown tails. They found that these new tails were complex structures with a central skeleton composed of cartilage surrounded by connective tissue that was interlaced with blood vessels and nerves.

21 Jan 2020

Rare species of monkeys, reptiles and rodents seized at Chennai Airport

Based on the information that wild animals are likely to be smuggled from Bangkok, Air Intelligence officers had been maintaining a special vigil. On Tuesday morning, AIU officers noticed that one passenger was moving in a suspicious manner in the arrival area.

07 Mar 2018

Oldest reptile that could shed its tail to escape predators identified

Interestingly, the research team found that young captorhinids had well-formed cracks, while those in some adults tended to fuse up.

27 Dec 2017

Crocodile walked Melbourne streets on Christmas

Residents out on an evening stroll stumbled across the reptile outside a suburban business, the BBC said.

09 Aug 2017

New species of grass snake identified in Europe

Researchers examined the genetic identity of more than 1,600 grass snakes many of them scientific museum specimens.

20 Jun 2017

Scientists welcome three newly discovered species of chameleons!

There are 206 described species of chameleons on the planet and Hughes hopes to continue finding many more.

21 Apr 2017

Our ancestors had powerful night-time vision

Mammals and reptiles share a common ancestor, with the earliest mammal-like animals appearing in the Late Triassic about 200 million years ago.

Snakes with limbs

27 Oct 2016

Have you ever heard of snakes with legs and arms? - Read

It's genetic mutation which caused the reptiles to lose their limbs over 100 million years ago.

Wildlife population

27 Oct 2016

Wildlife population has plunged 60 percent since 1970, says report

As per the report, the population if mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians has plunged owing to the human activities that have overwhelmed the environment.

10 Jun 2016

Incredible! 20-foot python rescued after trying to swallow goat - Watch video

The reptile was later on successfully released into the forest, NDTV reported.

29 Nov 2015

Reptile fossil explains how snakes lost their legs

Scientists used CT scans to examine the bony inner ear of Dinilysia patagonica, a 2-metre long reptile closely linked to modern snakes.

05 Oct 2015

Snake genome embedded with blueprints for growing limbs

Snakes have a genome that is associated with limb formation.

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