How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

Mongabay
Sep 12, 2026, 10:13 am76 ptsTrending
COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began laying traps along the uneasy boundary between farmland and forest. They were targeting small terrestrial…

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