Elephants’ decline portends dung beetle co-extinction Elephants are keystone species that sustain savannah ecosystems. A long-term study in East Africa has reported that dung beetles depend heavily on elephant dung. Following a 15-year field experiment, researchers concluded that beetle species richness dropped by 23%, and total beetle biomass fell by 51% sans elephant dung. Smaller...
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Google AI CEO has a message for laid off engineers at Meta, Amazon, Block, and other companies
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Commercial LPG gets costlier: How much will a 19-kg cylinder cost? Check city-wise rates
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Rajat Patidar’s four-word post after joining Dhoni, Rohit with back-to-back IPL titles
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‘Sitting inside CBSE’: Rahul’s ‘beware of pickpockets’ warning amid OSM row
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Rajeev Khandelwal on growing soursop tree for mom during cancer battle; oncologists react
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Anthropic CEO, who warns of AI-led mass layoffs, calls them a necessity
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Virat Kohli meets Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after RCB’s title win – Watch
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Fresh blow to TMC as 9 councillors quit, Diamond Harbour board dissolved
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Indians remained 3rd largest Schengen visa applicants in 2025; numbers climb in tough travel year
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