Crocodile lizard among 115 species found in Southeast Asia
A crocodile lizard, a snail-eating turtle, and a bat with a horseshoe-shaped face are among 115 new species discovered in 2016 in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam, according to a report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The new species found in the Mekong river basin include three mammals, 11 amphibians, two fish, 11 reptiles, and 88 plants.