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A marine iguana. Image by RAF-YCC via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

How Columbus’ voyages accelerated the homogenisation of Earth’s biodiversity [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 22 Oct 2026
Male blackbucks fight at Sagareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Inside Indian Jungle via Flickr (CC PDM 1.0).

The endurance runner of the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 21 Oct 2026
Hippocampus amandavincentae is thought to be endemic to the Indian Ocean. Image by Daniela De Angelis.

New-to-science seahorse is one of three long-misidentified species

Ananya Singh 20 Oct 2026
A captive orangutan infant. Indonesian authorities call for processes to be set in place to combat international illegal wildlife trade. Representative image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

One orangutan goes home. Will the five babies follow?

Arathi Menon 19 Oct 2026
A spintail devil ray. Representative image by Julien Renoult via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Small-scale fisheries a big threat to rays

Rupsy Khurana 19 Oct 2026
Gitchak nakana possesses a transparent body characteristic of groundwater dwelling fishes. Image by Ralf Britz.

Two new-to-science subterranean fishes reveal a hidden world underneath

Monish Upadhyay 19 Oct 2026

Light may influence morning basking behaviour in captive gharials

Lekha Bandopadhyay 16 Oct 2026
Canadian horseweed or Erigeron canadensis photographed in North America. Image by Aaron Volkening via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Invaders get better at competition in introduced ranges: Study

Arathi Menon 15 Oct 2026
A sloth bear in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary. Image by Bikash Das via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

The bear that evolved to hunt ants

Team Mongabay-India 14 Oct 2026
A tigress captured on camera trap in Valmiki Tiger Reserve in 2005. Image courtesy of Wildlife Trust of India.

Lessons from translocating a tiger for population recovery [Commentary]

Samir Kumar Sinha 13 Oct 2026
A garden lizard on a shrub of the genus Carissa. Image by Sonali Dahotre.

Reclaiming nature’s many delights through living fences [Book Review]

Usha Rai 12 Oct 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in the Rupnarayan river. Image by Abdul Wakid.

Ganges river dolphins may synchronise their activity with time, tides and the moon

Sneha Mahale 12 Oct 2026
A fish swims through bleached coral reefs in Caribbean waters near Panama in August this year. Representative image. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

As El Niño strengthens, coral reefs face narrow windows for recovery

Max Martin 9 Oct 2026
A moth camouflaged against L. pertusa lichen. Image by Sanjay Kumar Unniyal.

Study identifies rare case of moth and lichen association

Arathi Menon 8 Oct 2026
An ibisbill tagged and fitted with satellite PTT. Image by Khursheed Ahmad.

Climate change may increase the ibisbill’s habitat range, but other pressures loom

Hirra Azmat 5 Oct 2026
A pet African grey parrot in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu. More than 40,000 people in India have declared their exotic pets. By law, pet owners must register possession, transfer, birth and death of species listed in the Wild Life (Protection) Act. Representative image by Yercaud-elango via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Legal system fails to keep pace with India’s growing exotic pet industry

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2026

The visiting grassland gardeners

Team Mongabay-India 30 Sep 2026
Duttaphyrnus phawngpui sp. nov. Image courtesy of Dawngliana et al.

New toad species described in northeast mountain tops

Divya Kilikar 30 Sep 2026
Shompen people in Great Nicobar Island in 1997. The Shompen are the original forest dwellers of the Island. Images courtesy of Manish Chandi.

Isolated island tribes should choose their own destinies, says Manish Chandi [Interview]

Latoya Abulu 28 Sep 2026

NGOs call for permanent moratorium on animal imports to Vantara

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2026