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.
Cryptid discoveries abound in Vietnam
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