After a gap of over 80 years, wildlife researcher Jayasimhan Praveenraj, along with wildlife researcher Tejas Thackeray from the Thackeray Wildlife Foundation (TWF) and other researchers, has rediscovered Channa amphibeus, one of the world's rarest and most elusive snakehead fish species, in the Himalayan region of India.

A research paper on this rediscovery was recently published in the scientific journal Zootaxa on January 31, 2025.