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Cryptid discoveries abound in Vietnam


Posted on Wednesday, 9 August, 2006 | 3 comments

In 1992, Western scientists cataloged the ''discovery'' of the planet's largest new mammal in more than half a century, a forest-dwelling ox named the saola. Not merely a new species, it represented an entirely unrecorded genus of life.As of the publication of the fascinating Vietnam: A Natural History, scientists still had not sighted another free-ranging saola in the wild, although villagers sometimes kill an animal for meat.

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Comment icon #1 Posted by rice on 9 August, 2006, 9:14
too bad there isnt a pic of what they found..or the remains of the cryptid .. anyone have any idea or pics of how this Saola looks like?

Comment icon #2 Posted by Bella-Angelique on 9 August, 2006, 13:11


Comment icon #3 Posted by predator755 on 14 December, 2007, 20:08
Oh man! I wanna go there soooooooooooo bad!!!!!!! All I need is a ride, a permit, some standard survival equipment and a Franchi SPAS 12 or 15 with flechette ammunition and Id be good to go! Darn Vietkong keeping us cryptozoologists from studying...

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