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A long-legged marsh glider, a dragonfly species. Image courtesy of Chatur Ullu Lab.

Western Ghats has high odonate endemism, reveals survey

Arathi Menon 28 May 2026
Amblyceps vayavy, a new species of freshwater fish discovered from the Western Ghats. Image by Abhishek Shirke.

New-to-science catfish sheds light on west-flowing rivers of the Western Ghats

Lisann Dias 18 May 2026
A Kali night frog. Image by Aravind C.K.

New night frog comes to light in the Western Ghats

Arathi Menon 15 May 2026
Saara hardwickii or the spiny-tailed lizard is endemic to the Thar and Kutch desert regions. Image by Mihir Joshi.

Spiny-tailed lizards add insects to the menu

Shweta Yogi 4 May 2026

The last surviving population of a red deer rises

Team Mongabay-India 25 Mar 2026
Abscondita perplexa. Image by Parvez.

India’s first firefly checklist records 92 species, reveals high endemism

Arathi Menon 12 Mar 2026
A grassland in Dhule district, Maharashtra. Image by Yuvraj Shingate via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What traditional Marathi literature reveals about savannahs

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 4 Feb 2026
A saltwater crocodile. An island’s size not only affects the intensity of competition among species for limiting resources, but also the activity level and rate of metabolism in its dominant predators. Reptilian predators such as saltwater crocodile in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands is an example. Representative image by Richard.Fisher via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Development projects in small and micro islands need careful planning [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 2 Feb 2026
Hemidactylus kalinga sp. nov. Image by Pratyush P. Mohapatra.

New-to-science gecko sheds light on Eastern Ghats’ biodiversity

Arathi Menon 22 Jan 2026
The Nilgiris hills in the southern Western Ghats. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

A stairway from the ocean to the skies [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 29 Oct 2025

Elusive Eurasian otter spotted in Goa for the first time

Simrin Sirur 18 Sep 2025

On the trail of a lost relic [Commentary]

Sahanashree Ramakrishnaiah 4 Sep 2025
bare-bellied hedgehog

Bare-bellied and barely seen, Madras hedgehog needs a headcount

Arathi Menon 19 Feb 2025

Meet DiCaprio’s Himalayan serpent

Neha Jain 3 Jan 2025

Studies gain pace while the identity of Kashmir’s langurs remains gray

Arathi Menon 13 Dec 2024
Feral horses in Assam. Image by Hiren Senapati.

The last feral horses of India

Nabarun Guha 5 Nov 2024

[Commentary] Kerala is a hotspot within a hotspot

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 19 Sep 2024

Himalayan pikas wait for weather cues to make winter plans

Arathi Menon 21 Aug 2024
Banner image: Common morel. Image by Joost J Bakker via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Wild edible plants enhance food security and climate resilience in Kashmir, finds study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Aug 2024

[Explainer] How are species named?

Anusha Krishnan 4 Jun 2024