Businessmen are clearly bankrolling these enormous ivory expeditions, both feeding off and fueling conflict, Western officials and researchers say.
According to Xinhua News, representatives from the Insect Museum of West China found the enormous insect during a recent expedition on a mountain in Sichuan province.
The expedition was an enormous success, judged both by the end result and by the media attention generated for the company, and has been called "the world's greatest publicity stunt".
Training for polar expeditions involves dragging enormous car tires through thick sand for hours and hours on end.
Astronomers from all over the world took up the challenge, organising expeditions and overcoming enormous obstacles to make their observations from the farthest corners of the globe.
The expedition had been an enormous success, both in accomplishing the goal it had set out to accomplish, and by generating worldwide press coverage for the company and its product.
In May members of a scientific expedition announced the discovery of an enormous peat bog the size of England in the remote wetlands near the village of Itanga.
The motivation for the expedition were the rumours of the enormous riches that Vannius had accumulated by plunder and charging duties.
Sad to say, this new expedition into the misty land of Livermore is an enormous disappointment.
In particular, the enormous volume and variety of data available could increase the chances of "fishing expeditions", where investigators hunt through data without a specific purpose in mind.
