Washington: The electric eel may be one of the most remarkable predators in the entire animal kingdom.

New Delhi: A Depression has formed over southeast Arabian Sea. At 0830 hrs IST, the 28th October, it lay centered about 1200 km southwest of Mumbai and about 1320 km southeast of Salalah (Oman).  

Mathura / Vrindavan: River activists and Yamuna bhakts have demanded that the union government should set up an empowered Commission to promote and restore the health of the River Yamuna through a River Basin Management Plan and approach the initiative of river conservation with a more integrated approach at a national level.

Utah: In the 250-million-year evolutionary history of turtles, scientists have seen nothing like the pig nose of a new species of extinct turtle discovered in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by a team from the Natural History Museum of Utah.

Montreal: The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists. Their findings were published recently in BMC Plant Biology.

Washington: A researcher from the University of Southampton has produced a scientific study of the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.