This time it really did feel like the end of an era. And what an inglorious end it was, a gruesome mockery of a powerful, ...

A cat that looks more like a kitten, covered in a fawn coat with rusty brown spots on its back and an unmarked tail, was ...

Dr Sarala Fernando The detailed Joint Statement issued on December 16, 2024 after President Dissanayake’s State Visit to India lists a number of areas covered in the bilateral discussions: Political ...

Leopards and jaguars are two of nature’s most powerful and striking big cats, often mistaken for one another due to their ...

With Donald Trump inaugurated as America’s president for a second term and Steve Smith being sent as captain of the Australian cricket team to Sri Lanka for a second time, I have been musing about ...

“In India, a black panther is a melanistic variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus),” he shared. “These animals appear black due to melanism, which results in excess dark pigmentatio ...

The ant-march of tourists up the “Lion Rock” – home to the remnants of a 5th century palace built by a Sri Lankan king with a penchant for patricide – was proof that, two years after political unrest ...

Dinusha Wanniarachchi, who spent his youth picking black pepper in the ... you can see all the largest mammals in Sri Lanka, including elephants, buffalos and leopards in Yala National Park.” ...

Life reconstruction of the Portuguese snow leopard hunting an Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Credit: Jiangzuo et al., 2025. A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species’ evolutionary ...

Sri Lanka declared bankruptcy in 2022 and halted repayments on some repayments on some US$83 billion in domestic and foreign loans. In November 2023, Sri Lanka reached an agreement with China ...

Following these footages, the Department was finally able to prove that the Sri Lankan Black Leopard is no longer an endemic species in Sri Lanka. They also have managed to discover the existence of a ...