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- <text id=92TT1779>
- <title>
- Aug. 10, 1992: Journey Into Vietnam's Lost World
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 10, 1992 The Doomsday Plan
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Journey Into Vietnam's Lost World
- </hdr><body>
- <p>An expedition finds several new creatures, including a kind
- of goat
- </p>
- <p> It is hard to imagine that much of scientific interest would
- be left in the once pristine jungles of Vietnam, site of almost
- uninterrupted warfare from the 1940s through the mid-'70s. The
- conflict with the U.S., with its carpet-bombing and wholesale
- spraying of Agent Orange, was especially devastating. Thus it
- was something of a surprise that the first scientific foray deep
- into the Vu Quang Nature Reserve, near Laos, found what amounts
- to a "lost world" of animal and plant species.
- </p>
- <p> The most exciting discovery: a large, horned mammal that
- may be a kind of goat. Scientists brought out bones and skin
- samples to help them find out where it fits in the evolutionary
- puzzle. The expedition, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund,
- also brought back sightings or specimens of two new species of
- bird, one new kind of fish, and a previously unknown,
- yellow-shelled tortoise--and there are probably more new
- creatures to be found. A follow-up expedition is already in the
- works.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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