Mammals > Chiroptera
Davy’s Naked-backed Bat (Pteronotus davyi) is an extraordinary neotropical mormoopid bat distinguished by an evolutionary innovation that makes its back appear completely hairless and bare. Widely distributed across Mexico, Central America, and northern South...
Mammals > Diprotodontia
The Black-flanked Rock-wallaby (Petrogale lateralis), celebrated in Aboriginal cultures across central and western Australia as the warru, is an agile, beautifully marked macropod engineered for life on sheer precipices. Navigating vertical cliff faces, crumbly scree...
Mammals > Chiroptera
The Fish-eating Bat (Myotis vivesi), also known as the fish-eating myotis, is an extraordinary desert-island mammal adapted to an exclusively marine hunting existence. Roosting in boulder-strewn talus fields and remote coastal caverns along Mexico’s Sea of...
Mammals > Diprotodontia
The Ground Cuscus (Phalanger gymnotis) is an atypical, terrestrial possum native to the dense rainforests of New Guinea and adjacent archipelagos. While most cuscuses are strictly canopy-dwelling arboreal herbivores, the ground cuscus has evolved a largely...
Mammals > Carnivorans
The Spotted-necked Otter (Hydrictis maculicollis) is a sleek, highly aquatic carnivoran native to the lakes and river systems of Sub-Saharan Africa. Distinguished from other African otters by its slender build, fully webbed paws, and throat adorned with cream and...
Mammals > Carnivorans
The Spotted Linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) is a slender, exquisitely patterned arboreal carnivoran native to the humid montane forests of the eastern Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Long classified alongside civets and genets within the family Viverridae, recent genomic...
Mammals > Rodentia
The Vangunu Giant Rat (Uromys vika) is an extraordinary, elusive arboreal rodent endemic solely to the rain-drenched island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands. Long spoken of in the oral folklore of the local Vangunu people as a mythical, coconut-cracking tree rat...
Mammals > Diprotodontia
The Yellow-bellied Glider (Petaurus australis), often called the fluffy glider, is the largest member of the wrist-gliding marsupial genus Petaurus. Endemic to the lush tall eucalypt forests of eastern Australia, this nocturnal acrobat is famed for its remarkable...
Mammals > Primates
Formally described in 2019 and named in honor of the indigenous Munduruku people of the Brazilian Amazon, Mico munduruku is a strikingly distinct callitrichid primate. Restricted to a relatively narrow interfluvial zone between major tributaries in southwestern Pará,...
Mammals > Rodents
Described scientifically in 2005 from specimens discovered in local food markets in Khammouan Province, Laos, the Laotian Rock Rat (Laonastes aenigmamus)—locally known as the kha-nyou—stunned the global zoological community. Morphological and molecular analyses...
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