WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE OCT2016 | Page 6

WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE

New lizard species named as Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii discovered in Mumbai:

A new species of a ground-dwelling lizard has been discovered in Goregaon’ s Aarey Colony and Thane’ s Badlapur forested belts in Maharashtra. It has been named as Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii or Giri’ s Geckoella after a Bengaluru-based scientist Varad Giri. It was discovered 130 years after the last such gecko was discovered.

ISRO successfully launches 8 satellites into two different orbits:

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