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Incredibly rare species — with ‘peacock’ body — found in India for first time

In a central valley in India, a very rare turtle was photographed and misidentified for nearly a decade. Getty Images/iStock Photo Nearly a decade ago, researchers in the central valley of Manipur, ...

Incredibly rare species — with ‘peacock’ body — found in India for first time

The photo “of an alleged N. hurum clearly depicts a (Nilssonia formosa) and thus constitutes the first photographic voucher of this critically endangered species from India,” researchers wrote in an ...