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The Serendib Scops-Owl (Otus thilohoffmanni) is one of Sri Lanka’s greatest ornithological discoveries and the country’s most recently described endemic bird, first

C. greeni, a distinctive butterfly species, inhabits the unique highland plateau of Horton Plains in Sri Lanka. Found amidst stunted vegetation and

First recorded in Sri Lanka in 1931 from Kumbalgamuwa, was initially identified as a subspecies based on three specimens collected by Phillips

Hipposideros srilankaensis: the newly identified bat species endemic to Sri Lanka! It was long misclassified as H. galeritus, but recent research based