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Australian mathematician named Daniel Mansfield has discovered a piece of clay tablet from the Old Babylonian Period, claiming it to be the oldest example of applied geometry. The 3700-year-old tablet also called Si.427 was housed in one of Istanbul’s museums for over 100 years. “It's the only known example of a cadastral document from the OB period, which is a plan used by surveyors to define land boundaries,” said Mansfield.

Paleontologists discovered microsaur from the 308 million years old fossil. They look like small, lizard-like animals belonging to the Carboniferous period. According to Arjan Mann, a Ph.D. holder at Smithsonian Institution said that microsaur has shown to be an important creature in understanding the origin of amniotes. He further added, “a lot of these microsaurs have been thought to be either ancestors of amphibians or ancestors of… read-more

What can be termed as an incredible discovery, a new genus of frog family was found in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. The new genus - Rohanixalus - was named after renowned Lankan taxonomist Rohan Pethiyagoda. Its size is up to 3 cm, with coloured strips filled with speckles. The research head SD Biju stated that the discovery would help in assuring faunal exchange between Andaman and Indo-Burma region.