The sea fortifications of Maharashtra's shore and the petroglyphs or geoglyphs found in the Konkan locale in the new past could be recorded as UNESCO world heritage sites.

The Maharashtra government tourism and cultural affairs department is intending to send a nomination to UNESCO for the designation of ocean/seaside strongholds, including Mumbai's Madh Fort and the petroglyphs of Ratnagiri. Petroglyphs are pictures drawn by eliminating some portion of a stone surface by chiseling, picking, cutting, or scraping. The petroglyphs likewise called Katal Shilpa locally are available in and around the Ratnagiri region spread across open spaces on the edges of towns. They are expected to be 12,000 years of age and Ratnagiri and Rajapur have over 1,000 petroglyphs across 60 locales.

2) 4,500  year old network of 'Funerary Avenues' discovered

Archeologists in northwest Saudi Arabia have found 4,500-year-old "funerary roads" - the longest-running for 105 miles a(170 km) - close by a large number of pendant-formed stone tombs.

3)  2 New Plant Species discovered from Western Ghats

The species detailed from the Sindhudurg locale of Maharashtra has been named Eriocaulon parvicephalum (because of its moment inflorescence size), and the other reported from Kumta, Karnataka is called Eriocaulon karaavalense (named after Karaavali, Coastal Karnataka district).

  

                                 

Pipeworts (Eriocaulon) is a plant group which completes its life cycle within a small period during monsoon. It exhibits great diversity in the Western Ghats. Around 111 species of pipeworts are found in India. Most of these are reported from the Western Ghats and the eastern Himalayas, and around 70% of them are endemic to the country.

Researchers from the Agharkar Research Institute in Pune have as of late found two new species of pipeworts in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra and Karnataka

4) CMFRI Identifies New 'Vatta' Fish Species in Indian Waters

CMFRI) has identified another carangid (Vatta) species from the Indian coast. The recently portrayed fish has a place with the 'queen fish' bunch and is named Scomberoides pelagicus. In the local, the fish is known as pola vatta. The new fish is unmistakable by the profound praise body, inward dorsal head profile, and heavy and less various gill rakers on the primary gill curve contrasted with the firmly related species.

There are more than 60 types of carangids in Indian oceans, out of which four have a place with the 'queen fish'. The recently portrayed one is the fifth queenfish from Indian waters. From one side of the planet to the other, three queen fishes were terminated before.