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Brett Smith for Redorbit.com A joint team of UK and Indian scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of worm-like amphibian living near Kerala, India. Scientists from the University of Kerala and Natural History Museum in London found the species while digging in the moist soil of a shrub-lined mountain stream after a monsoon, according to the study published in Zootaxa. The animal, named Gegeneophis primus, measured about six-and-a-half inches and was found in the...

Scientists have discovered a new family of legless amphibians while digging through the mud in northeast India. The Chikilidae is the 10th edition to the caecilian group of amphibians, which are a group of amphibians that resemble earthworms. This family lives hidden in the ground, and its skin has numerous lines, giving it a segmented appearance. The new species was found while the researchers were digging around at 250 locations looking for the amphibians. "DNA analysis has...