Dec 15, 2008: Mekong Youjane
 

http://cellar.org/2008/snake.jpg

http://cellar.org/2008/centipede.jpg

The Greater Mekon River region yields over 1,000 new species in the last decade.

I thought we killed all of that with the Agent Orange ... or are these the mutations we were warned about?

Ok. a cyanide laced shocking pink millipede counts as a "treasure trove"? What does that make me then?

mere words fail to describe you:)

Ah, just like that discussion of "holiness."

wtf "Youjane?"

me tarzan, you jane.
meh?

Who's behind is the giant rat of Sumatra?

A shocking pink cyanide laced humanoid.

Oh great, I've been eating cyanide-laced humanoid ice-cream for the last 8 weeks. You guys could have told me.

a spider the size f a dinner plate?

uh . . . NO!

Youjane: A thousand pardons. It hit me an hour or two later.
Youfay or Youann would have hit sooner.
The Mekong area in 1966 had nasty ants and scorpions and the rubber plantations had huge spiders just at eye level.:eek:

That pit viper just oozes attitude. I'm pretty sure he's flaring his nostrils at me! :eek3:

The snake's color is so rich, its pattern simple and elegant. Quite beautiful, even if it does seem to be considering recipes for human. But the millipedes are the color of slobbered-on cotton candy. Interesting critters, but I'm grateful these are still images and not movies. ::shudders::

There is something I like about being alive during the discovery of new species.