Case file · Cryptid
Kting voar, the 'snake-eating cow'
In 1994 horns bought in a Ho Chi Minh City market were described as a new bovid, Pseudonovibos spiralis, the legendary Cambodian kting voar.
1994 CE · 12.45, 107.20 · status: hoax
The account
Biologist Wolfgang Peter believed the oddly twisted horns came from an unknown species said to eat snakes, from the hills of Cambodia and Vietnam.
The sceptical view
Later morphological and DNA studies concluded the horns were carved, heated and reshaped cattle or buffalo horns, made for the medicine and trophy trade.