We know less about some living mammals than about many dinosaurs. Will the Vietnamese spiral-horned ox, known from a few horns, become extinct before scientists see a live one?
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Robert M. Timm and John H. Brandt, Pseudonovibos spiralis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae): new information on this enigmatic South-east Asian ox, Journal of Zoology 253, 157 - 166, 2001.
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Gee, H. The strange case of the spiral-horned ox. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010315-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news010315-4