Two new scorpion species found in Vietnam

Two new species of scorpions have been discovered in Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh.  Dr. Pham Dinh Sac from the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources and Dr. Wilson Lourenco from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris have just discovered a species of scorpions, scientifically named as “Vietbocap...

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Tigers Butchered for Trade at "Zoos" in China?

December 29, 2009--Tourists feed tigers at the Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Park, a private zoo in Guillin, China, in an undated photograph. Many such tourist attractions secretly operate as fronts for illegal tiger farming, butchering captive tigers for their parts, National Geographic magazine reports in the January 2010 story "Asia's Wildlife Trade."On...

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Rare Monkeys Spotted in Vietnam

The survival of a subspecies may be riding on these monkeys' backs. The largest known troop of gray-shanked douc langurs (above left)—among the world's most endangered primates, has been discovered in central Vietnam. (See Vietnam map.)About a thousand of these tree-dwelling, tangerine-tinted animals, first identified in 1997, are thought to exist....

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Hundreds of Rare Gibbons Found in Vietnam

A male northern white-cheeked gibbon (left) and a mother carrying her baby hang out in a treetop in Vietnam's Pu Mat National Park in a recent picture. The animals are part of a newfound population of more than 400 of the gibbons, which are deemed critically endangered in Vietnam and Laos by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The gibbons,...

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Video about Javan Rhino Extinct in Mainland Asia

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Javan Rhino Extinct in Mainland Asia

The Javan rhinoceros is extinct in mainland Asia, conservationists announced this week.An adult female Javan rhino was shot and killed in a Vietnamese forest last year—leaving just one wild population left of the species in the world, a group of fewer than 50 individuals in a small park in Indonesia."The last Javan rhino in Vietnam has gone," Tran...

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Video about Ornithoptera

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World of Insect Giants: Giant Butterfly

The largest winged insect in the world is the Queen Alexandra Birdwing butterfly, with females being the larger of the species having a wingspan of up to 12 inches (30cm). Female Ornithoptera alexandra (the scientific name for these giant butterflies) are not as brightly colored as the exotic males, which have iridescent scales of green, lavender,...

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Video about Giant Tarantula

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Biggest Spider: Goliath Tarantula

Goliath Tarantulas are Fearsome PredatorsThere's something about spiders that gives most people the creeps, instilling a sense of fear and loathing upon seeing one. It's as though there's a part of the human brain that perceives the form of a spider as dangerous or threatening. Perhaps those deep dark feelings we get when we see a spider are echoes...

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