Over 100 new species discovered in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region
(WWF) – A crocodile lizard that is the inspiration behind an up-and-coming comic strip, a snail-eating turtle discovered in a bustling food market in Thailand, and a horseshoe bat that could fit right into a Star Wars movie…these are just three of the 115 new species discovered by scientists in the Greater Mekong region in 2016. These, together with more than a hundred others such as a beautifully coloured frog found in the limestone karst mountains of Vietnam and two mole species from Cambodia, bring the total number of new species of plants,…
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