A forest in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills has thrown up an unexpected find—a new species of snake that spent years hiding in plain sight, consistently mistaken for a species already on the books.
In a major boost to India’s biodiversity research, scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered two new species of jumping spiders in Meghalaya—Asemonea dentis and Colyttus nongwar.