{"id":85253,"date":"2019-11-01T02:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=85253"},"modified":"2019-11-01T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:57:55","slug":"worlds-largest-amphibian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-largest-amphibian\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Amphibian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question:  Recently researchers from which of the following countries have discovered a new species of giant Chinese salamander, which is now considered to be the world\u2019s largest amphibian?<br> (a) China<br> (b) New Zealand<br> (c) France <br> (d) England<br> Answer: (d)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In September 2019; researchers have discovered a new species of giant Chinese salamander, which is now considered to be the world\u2019s largest amphibian.<\/li><li>Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and London\u2019s Natural History Museum took the initiative in this discovery.<\/li><li>The study of this species is mentioned in the journal Ecology and Evolution and its scientific name is Andrias sligoi. <\/li><li>In this journal it has been described that there are 3 distinct species of Chinese salamanders which are now considered as critically endangered species. <\/li><li>Apart from Andrias sligoi, the other salamander species is named as Andrias davidianus while the third is yet to be named.<\/li><li>Giant salamanders, which typically live in rocky, mountainous river systems, were once widespread across central, southern and eastern China.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/giant-salamander-chinese-world-largest-amphibian-china-zsl-a9108101.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/giant-salamander-chinese-world-largest-amphibian-china-zsl-a9108101.html<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2019\/09\/giant-salamander-new-species-worlds-largest-amphibian\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2019\/09\/giant-salamander-new-species-worlds-largest-amphibian\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/globalpunjabtv.in\/new-species-of-giant-salamander-is-worlds-biggest-amphibian\">https:\/\/globalpunjabtv.in\/new-species-of-giant-salamander-is-worlds-biggest-amphibian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently researchers from which of the following countries have discovered a new species of giant Chinese salamander, which is now considered to be the world\u2019s largest amphibian? (a) China (b) New Zealand (c) France (d) England Answer: (d) Related facts: In September 2019; researchers have discovered a new species of giant Chinese salamander, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":85254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[3119],"class_list":["post-85253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-science-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}