{"id":16186,"date":"2023-10-23T05:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16186"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:06:24","slug":"laodracon-carsticola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/laodracon-carsticola\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Laodracon carsticola?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Laodracon carsticola<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a newly discovered\u00a0species of dragon lizard.<\/li>\n<li>It has been discovered to live\u00a0only in the karstic massifs\u00a0of Khammouan Province,\u00a0central Laos.<\/li>\n<li>It possesses extraordinary\u00a0camouflage abilities.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0belongs to the\u00a0mainland Asian subfamily Draconinae. This subfamily contains around 256 species that all live across Asia.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0lizards within this family are typically omnivores, with the species spread across\u00a0tree-living and ground-living habitats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It measures around\u00a0101 millimeters\u00a0(3.9 inches)\u00a0long and has\u00a0slate gray and black scales with blue coloration\u00a0on their throats\u00a0and\u00a0blue\/gray bellies.<\/li>\n<li>It can be told apart from other species by the\u00a0noticeably swollen base of the tail.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0body scales\u00a0exhibit pronounced\u00a0rough scales, which could serve to help it climb the steep limestone pinnacles on which it lives.<\/li>\n<li>The lizards are suspected to\u00a0have a diet of ants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a Karst Terrain?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is typically characterized by\u00a0barren, rocky ground consisting of soluble rock\u2014such as\u00a0limestone or gypsum\u2014that features caves, sinkholes, and underground rivers, among other distinctive features.<\/li>\n<li>This type of landscape is\u00a0created by the dissolving effects of underground water on the soluble rock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Limestone?<\/h3>\n<p>Limestone is a sedimentary rock primarily composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the form of mineral calcite or aragonite.Limestone forms through the accumulation and compaction of marine organisms, primarily the remains of shellfish and coral, over millions of years. This sedimentary rock can exhibit a wide array of textures and colors, depending on its composition.t is commonly used as a building material in the construction industry for making concrete and mortar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-dragon-lizard-species-camouflage-capabilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New &#8216;dragon lizard&#8217; species with impressive camouflage capabilities found in Southeast Asia<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laodracon carsticola is a newly discovered species of dragon lizard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}