To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Mongabay
Sep 30, 2025, 12:49 am121 ptsTrending
Few people have the opportunity to meet near-mythical beasts in real life — but Rob Timmins has. He’s one of the few biologists ever to spend time with a saola, a wild ox once known as the “Asian unicorn,” and arguably the most threatened large mammal on the planet. First described by science in 1993,…

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