Golden Mantella

Amphibians > Mantellas & Mantellids

The Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) is an exquisite, jewel-like terrestrial micro-anuran belonging to the Malagasy poison frog family Mantellidae, endemic strictly to a minuscule, highly fragmented enclave of highland swamp forest in east-central Madagascar....

Largetooth Sawfish

Fish > Sawfishes & Rays

The Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis, historically also classified as Pristis microdon and Pristis perotteti) is an immense, heavily armored elasmobranch belonging to the sawfish family Pristidae. Despite its shark-like body and upright dorsal fins, it is...

Wollemi Pine

Plants > Conifers

The Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) is universally celebrated as the botanical equivalent of finding a living dinosaur walking through a modern forest. Belonging to the prehistoric conifer family Araucariaceae, this magnificent evergreen tree was known only from...

Red Handfish

Fish > Handfishes

The Red Handfish (Thymichthys politus) is one of the most eccentric, vulnerable, and critically imperiled marine vertebrates on planet Earth. Belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae—an ancient relict lineage of coastal anglerfishes that diverged over 50 million...

Sunda Pangolin

Mammals > Pangolins

The Sunda Pangolin (Manis javanica), frequently called the Malayan pangolin, is an extraordinary, nocturnal mammal native to the lush, humid tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. Often described as a ‘living pinecone’ or modern mammalian dinosaur, it...