Saturday 3 February 2018

New aquatic species found in Chhattisgarh cave

Raipur: In a path-breaking finding, a scientist has discovered three new aquatic species of the prawn family in the famed Kotumsar cave of Chhattisgarh, believed to be four million years old.
The cave may hold clues to evolution of known and unknown faunal species, say experts.
The new amphipod crustacean species (akin to prawn in appearance), christened zoologically as Kotumsaria bastarensis has been found in one of the tiny water pools in the nearly one-km-long cave, =READ MORE

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