Better to have been a mammal in India

Over the last at least 100,000 years, mammals in India survived in a unique, interconnected ecosystem whose absence might have seen the animals go extinct.

April 10, 2014 12:47 am | Updated May 21, 2016 10:00 am IST

A part of the Billasurgam cave complex, Kurnool dist., Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Special arrangement

A part of the Billasurgam cave complex, Kurnool dist., Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Special arrangement

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