Vietnamese restaurant serves up a previously undiscovered species

Don’t make a racially insensitive joke. The headline is true: Acting on a tip from a fellow scientist, KU grad student Jesse Grismer found a new species of animal through a dish served at a Vietnamese restaurant.

The animal is a lizard — Leolepis ngovantrii,

served fried, with a side of lettuce and tomato — and the restaurant is

in a remote part of southern Vietnam. The surprisingly hunky Grismer

tells the whole story in a video produced by KU (see it after the jump).