Saola: 'Unicorn' Sighted In Laos
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 13:49
in Biology & Nature
A non-mythological unicorn? So it seems. Unicorns have been mentioned throughout history, in mythology and in the works of The Bible and Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Today the modern westernized unicorn is pure white and hangs out with virgins. In zoology, it is never so simple. In 1992, in Vietnam's Vu Quang Nature Reserve near the country's border with Laos, a spectacular zoological discovery occurred. A creature with long horns (sorry unicorn fans - two of them) and white facial markings, and resembling the antelopes of North Africa but more closely related to wild cattle, a new species called the Saola was discovered. read more
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