#Western Ghats

Author: Jenifer Sako / Source: did you know? In the Indian state of Maharashtra, a peculiar but pretty creature scampers overhead in the trees. It has the quick movements of a plain, old eastern gray squirrel, but with its vivid streaks of orange, maroon and black, it’s much more splendid. It’s

Author: Jeremy Rehm / Source: Science News A tiny new frog species discovered in tropical forests of southwest India has been one of a kind for millions of years. Palaniswamy Vijayakumar and his colleagues first spotted the new species one night in 2010 while surveying frogs and reptiles roughly

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News Which came first: the impact or the eruptions? That question is at the heart of two new studies in the Feb. 22 Science seeking to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in Earth’s geologic history: Whether an asteroid impact or massive

Sometimes one wishes to do something extra ordinary. Something challenging; something thrilling; something out of the ordinary and something exotic. When the Mumbai monsoons force you to stay indoors day after day and your inner self wants to break free, perhaps the time is to do something