Lake Sturgeon

Fish > Sturgeons

The Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is the colossal, ancient monarch of North America’s Great Lakes. Surviving virtually unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs over 150 million years ago, this armored giant is the largest and longest-lived freshwater fish...

Malayan Jungle Nymph

Invertebrates > Stick Insects

The Malayan Jungle Nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata) is an absolute titan among the world’s insects, renowned as the heaviest phasmid (stick insect) on Earth. Exhibiting extreme sexual dimorphism, the monumental female resembles a massive, lime-green spiny leaf...

Giant Spiny Stick Insect

Invertebrates > Insects

The Giant Spiny Stick Insect (Eurycantha calcarata), also known as the Thorny Tree Lobster or Black Ground Stick Insect, is one of the heaviest, most heavily armored, and most formidable phasmids on Earth. Native to the lush tropical rainforests of New Guinea and the...

Sudan Plated Lizard

Reptiles > Lizards

The Sudan Plated Lizard (Gerrhosaurus major), also known as the Western Plated Lizard or Great Plated Lizard, is a robust, heavily armored diurnal reptile native to the sun-drenched savannas and rocky bushlands of East Africa. Belonging to the family Gerrhosauridae,...
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