The new research offers a method to predict where to look for new animal species -- as extinction rates continue to rise.

Algae could help us understand how different sex systems — like male and female — evolved in the first place, researchers say.

This is the first time India has discovered a plant species in almost 40 years since it first set up a research station on the continent.

"That there were two relatively large animals that had gone unreported shows how little we know about the natural world."

The discovery is the first-ever record of lifeforms living in stone ecosystems in extreme temperatures.