In the early 1990s, scientists fished the Mekong River on the ... of Nature’s) Red List,” researchers said. Then, in 2005, the fish disappeared. For 15 years the species was “suspected ...

The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...

A giant flying squirrel, a skydiving gecko, a fish that mates head-to-head, and an eyeless cave-dwelling spider are among the 367 new species revealed by scientists in the Greater Mekong region in ...

The region, including parts of Vietnam and five other countries, is home to 1,068 species ... Mekong river, and another 150 are slated to be built, according to the Fund. Dams that can trap and ...

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or Sesan River. The Sesan originates in Vietnam and meets the Mekong about 30 miles downstream from the Don Sahong. It’s known to be a key migration route for dozens of fish species, including ...

To ensure their protection, two of the Kingdom’s monsters of the deep, the giant freshwater stingray and the giant salmon carp, are being considered for inclusion on a government list ... the two ...

BANGKOK (AP): A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund’s latest update on the greater Mekong region. The conservation group ...

The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as ...

Trawlers looked at their net; they’d caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City several times in 2023 to search for a group of fish known as snake ...