Monday, September 28, 2009

Scientists Announce Trove of Fragile New Species In Mekong

The Cat Ba leopard gecko, discovered in 2008, found in the Cat Ba Island National Park in northern Vietnam. Thomas Ziegler / WWF / Epa

From Time Magazine:

Right now, bird-eating frogs with fangs wait for their prey in the streams of eastern Thailand. Technicolor geckos scurry up trees on the Thai-Malaysian border, and ruby-red fish — previously only found in the Ukrainian ornamental fish trade — are swimming in the rivers of Burma. These are three of the 163 species discovered by various researchers in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia last year, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced on Sept. 25.

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