Arunachal Pradesh

Meet Salazar’s pit viper – a new snake species named after the parseltongue wizard

Bengaluru | May 4, 2020

Salazar Slytherin – the parseltongue wizard who talks with snakes in J.K. Rowling’s fantasy Harry Potter is not just a mystical character name of the Potterverse anymore! Now, its found a place in India’s biodiversity as a newly discovered pit viper from Arunachal Pradesh has been named after this character.

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A newly found species of dung beetle from Arunachal Pradesh adds to India’s biodiversity

Bengaluru | Dec 2, 2019

In a recent study, scientists from the Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, have found a new species of earth-boring dung beetle in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh during one of their field expeditions. Named after the district it was discovered in, Enoplotrupes tawangensis belongs to the family Geotrupidae.

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