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Saola
Scientists discovered the Saola in 1992 — and no researcher has ever seen one alive in the wild since. This mysterious forest animal from Vietnam and Laos may be one of the rarest mammals on Earth, possibly on the edge of functional extinction. Your mission: understand what we know about a creature we can barely find.
Things to know
- •The Saola was first described by science in 1992 from skull specimens found in a hunter's house — one of the most recent large mammal discoveries ever.
- •No scientist has ever directly observed a Saola alive in the wild.
- •It has only been photographed by camera traps a handful of times, the last confirmed image in 2013.
- •The greatest threat is snares set for other animals throughout the Annamite forest — snare removal teams have pulled out hundreds of thousands of traps.
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