NEW DELHI: In a shocking video doing the rounds on social media, a man is seen risking his life by walking dangerously close to a lion as it devours its prey. The man tried to film the big cat up close which went viral on social media but the stunt could have ended in tragedy.The…
Pakistan seems to have forgotten the age-old wisdom passed through folktales in the Indian subcontinent — dig a pit for others, and see yourself fall in it. Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, during a speech in the Pakistani Senate on the India-Pakistan clashes, ended up referring to a fake news report which had been…
If you’ve ever really looked at how flamingos eat, you know how captivatingly peculiar it is. They bob their inverted heads in the water and do a kind of waddle cha-cha as they inch their way across shallow water, filter-feeding small crustaceans, insects, microscopic algae and other tiny aquatic morsels. Victor Ortega-Jiménez, an integrative biologist…
Image credits: Current Biology In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists in Brazil have discovered the world’s oldest known ant fossil of a 113-million-year-old specimen of a fearsome predator known as a “hell ant.” Unearthed from limestone in northeastern Brazil, this fossil dramatically reshapes our understanding of ant evolution, pushing back their known history by over 13…
BHOPAL: Panchtantra met Jungle Book in the forests of Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, when a tigress chasing a boar fell into a well, along with the prey, in the heat of pursuit. Trapped in a battle for survival, both the hunter and hunted treaded the water together, often rubbing against each other in the closed confines.The…