A New Study Says the Jurassic Park T. rex May Have Moved More Like an Ostrich Compared to What We Thought PreviouslyNew research challenges the popular image of Tyrannosaurus Rex as a lumbering beast, revealing it likely moved with a bird-like, toe-first ...
16 May, 2026, 04.22 PM IST
Scientists finally figured out how mosquitoes track and bite humansMosquitoes possess a hidden sense: they track your body heat using infrared radiation. Researchers discovered this ability, which, when com...
12 May, 2026, 06.45 PM IST
The real Jurassic Park is happening: Woolly mammoths are returning and that's not even the biggest news — here's what else is comingExtinct animals coming back: Scientists are pursuing de-extinction, aiming to bring back species like the woolly mammoth and bluebuck. The ...
03 May, 2026, 11.35 PM IST
Hidden in Andhra Pradesh's tiger reserve is a rare jewel of nature. It is 9 hours drive from Bengaluru and 6 hours from HyderabadA critical conservation effort is underway in Andhra Pradesh's Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve to study the critically endangered Pe...
30 Apr, 2026, 10.39 AM IST
- Genome sequencing to help prevent inbreeding among tigers
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Scientists are sequencing the genome of Ranthambore's tigers, the most isolated feline and one that, it is feared,...
20 Feb, 2018, 01.02 PM IST
50 Siberian tiger cubs born in China's Heilongjiang parkThe park has over 1,000 Siberian tigers. Scientists handpick certain tigers, using a DNA database, to breed the next generation every year,...
08 Aug, 2016, 08.51 AM IST
India's first tiger cell to be set up in DehradunCountry's first tiger cell will soon take shape at the Wildlife Institute of India campus in Dehradun. The cell will house a database of ti...
05 Aug, 2016, 10.12 AM IST
Are India's tiger numbers inflated?No doubt tigers are reclusive animals and counting them is not easy but such a huge discrepancy of a third of the population casts a doubt ...
24 Jul, 2016, 09.53 AM IST
Deadly virus pushing tigers towards extinctionAdding to the existing pressures of habitat loss, poaching and depletion of prey species, a new threat to tiger populations in the wild has...
08 Nov, 2014, 06.59 AM IST
- Nothing truly Bengali about Royal Bengal Tiger?
Gene studies say that the Sunderbans tiger population is identical to the tiger population of central India and has been isolated recently,...
04 Nov, 2013, 01.55 AM IST
Gene mapping of tiger completed, to help in conservationThis may well prove to be a giant leap in international efforts at conservation of the tiger, an endangered big cat.
18 Sep, 2013, 05.04 AM IST
- Ten Sunderbans tigers to get collars
The forest department has decided to radio-collar ten tigers in the Sunderbans where population dynamics of the big cats has al ways remain...
01 Apr, 2013, 05.34 AM IST
- Ten tigers to be radio-collared in Sunderbans
The forest department has decided to radio-collar ten tigers in the Sunderbans, where population dynamics of the big cats has always remain...
29 Mar, 2013, 04.47 AM IST
- Low prey density plagues Sunderbans: Study
WII's scientist Y V Jhala said that a total of 187 kilometres of boat transects were carried out between February and May to get an idea ab...
07 Aug, 2012, 05.59 AM IST
- Wildlife Institute team probes death of tiger cubs
A two-member team from Wildlife Institute of India visited Kanpur zoo on Wednesday to ascertain why the tiger cubs died of kidney failure.
01 Feb, 2012, 11.10 PM IST
Nationwide tiger census due in 2010With nationwide tiger census due to be conducted in 2010 by All India Tiger Authority in collaboration with Wildlife Institute of India Deh...
03 Nov, 2009, 04.52 PM IST
- World Bank offers India loan to save tigers
The World Bank has 'asked' the Indian government to put in a 'formal request' to it for a loan to save the tigers.
30 May, 2008, 12.38 AM IST