by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 28, 2020 | Geography
Introduction Sal forest tortoise, also known as the elongated tortoise (indotestudo elongate) is one among 23 of the 29 of fresh-water turtle and tortoise, under the threatened category in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list. As per the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 28, 2020 | Geography
As per a research study published in the June 2020 issue of journal Vertebrate Zoology, a snake spotted by a team led by zoologist Abhijit Das in 2018 was in fact Assam keel back snake. This snake was earlier sighted in 1869 by a team from the Wildlife Institute of...
by Spectrum | May 4, 2020 | Geography
Researchers have observed millisecond pulses of gamma-rays produced by thunderstorms using instruments onboard the International Space Station (ISS), which may reveal more about the process by which these terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are made. This was stated...