Cape Dune Mole-Rat

Mammals > Blesmols & Mole-Rats

The Cape Dune Mole-Rat (Bathyergus suillus) is the undisputed colossus of subterranean rodents, holding the scientific title as the largest subterranean rodent on planet Earth. Endemic exclusively to the windswept coastal dunes and sandy strandveld lowlands of South...

Wynne’s Disk-Winged Bat

Mammals > Disk-winged Bats

Wynne’s Disk-Winged Bat (Thyroptera wynneae) is an extraordinary, tiny insectivorous bat described to science in 2014 from the pristine lowland rainforests of Loreto and Madre de Dios in western Amazonian Peru. Named in honor of American mammalogist Patricia J....

Gray-headed Flying Squirrel

Mammals > Flying Squirrels

The Gray-headed Flying Squirrel (Petaurista caniceps) is a large, charismatic nocturnal gliding mammal belonging to the tribe Pteromyini, native to the rugged, cloud-blanketed mountain forests of the eastern Himalayas and adjacent Southeast Asian ranges. Clothed in a...

Titania’s Woolly Bat

Mammals > Woolly Bats

Titania’s Woolly Bat (Kerivoula titania), named after Titania the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is an ethereal, miniature microbat discovered in the mist-veiled limestone karst forests of mainland Southeast Asia....

Palawan Porcupine

Mammals > Old World Porcupines

The Palawan Porcupine (Hystrix pumila), locally known as the landak, is a distinctive Old World hystricid rodent endemic strictly to the Palawan faunal region of the southwestern Philippines. Smaller and more compact than its continental cousins, this armored...

Slender Root Rat

Mammals > Rodents

The Slender Root Rat (Gracilimus radix) is a dainty, uniquely adapted murine rodent discovered in 2016 during intensive scientific biological surveys of Mount Dako in Central Sulawesi. Earning its specific scientific epithet ‘radix’ (Latin for...

Hog-nosed Shrew Rat

Mammals > Rodents

The Hog-nosed Shrew Rat (Hyorhinomys stuempkei) is one of the most astonishing mammalian evolutionary discoveries of the 21st century. Discovered in 2013 on the misty, cloud-enclosed slopes of Mount Dako in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, this bizarre murine rodent...

Western Mastiff Bat

Mammals > Bats

The Western Mastiff Bat (Eumops perotis) is the largest bat species in North America, a magnificent free-tailed flyer with a wingspan approaching two feet. Cruising the twilight skies of desert canyons and coastal ranges, this colossal aerial insectivore is...

Virginia Big-eared Bat

Mammals > Bats

The Virginia Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) is an endangered microbat subspecies endemic to the rugged Appalachian karst valleys of eastern North America. Renowned for its enormous, translucent ears that measure over an inch long and curling...

Montane Monkey-faced Bat

Mammals > Bats

The Montane Monkey-faced Bat (Pteralopex pulchra) is one of the rarest, most mystifying flying mammals on Earth. Endemic solely to the remote, cloud-veiled mountain summits of Makira Island in the Solomon archipelago, this extraordinary megabat earned its colloquial...