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The saola, an antelope-like endangered mammal, has been caught on camera for the first time in the 21st century. The animal, dubbed the “Asian Unicorn” because it is so rarely seen, was ...
'Asian Unicorn' Spotted for First Time This Century A rarely seen mammal was spotted in the jungle in Vietnam.
Saving the ‘Asian Unicorns’: How do you protect what you can’t see? No scientist has seen a saola in the wild, but that isn’t stopping them from trying to save the species from extinction.
Is it extinct, or does it still roam somewhere deep in the misty highland forests of Vietnam and Laos? It has been nicknamed the Asian unicorn due to its almost mythical rarity, and it is the most ...
Native to Vietnam, the saola is a horned species so illusive, it’s been nicknamed the Asian unicorn. Researchers reconstructed the genomes of 26 saola using samples from hunting trophies. A ...
Sometimes called the Asian unicorn, the saola is so elusive that researchers have never seen it in the wild. All we have to go on are the remains, glimpses captured on trail cameras, and sightings ...
For more than 14 years, conservationist Dr. Barney Long has been researching and trying to protect the saola species in southeast Asia. But in all that time, he never spotted a living saola in the ...
The creature, the saola (known colloquially as the "Asian unicorn") is a small, horned animal that resembles a strange goat-antelope hybrid, but is more closely related to a kind of wild cow.
Is it extinct, or does it still roam somewhere deep in the misty highland forests of Vietnam and Laos? It has been nicknamed the Asian unicorn due to its almost mythical rarity, and it is the most ...
Efforts to find the Asian "unicorn" were delayed because of the pandemic The species has only been photographed five times, all by camera traps The new efforts focus on saving saola from ...