Taliera Palm

Plants > Palms

The Taliera Palm (Corypha taliera), known historically in Bengali as the ‘Tara’ or ‘Taliera,’ is a monumental, critically revered palm native to the Bengal basin of northeastern India and Bangladesh. Officially categorized by the IUCN as...

Coral Balanophora

Plants > Parasitic Plants

The Coral Balanophora (Balanophora coralliformis) is an astonishing, newly discovered parasitic plant endemic exclusively to the mist-shrouded summit slopes of Mount Giting-Giting on Sibuyan Island in the central Philippines. Named for its bizarre, branching...

Cave Squeaker

Amphibians > Frogs & Toads

The Cave Squeaker (Arthroleptis troglodytes) is an elusive, miniature squeaker frog endemic strictly to the windswept quartzite peaks and deep subterranean cave systems of the Chimanimani Mountains in eastern Zimbabwe. First discovered by science in 1962 and...

Hawaiian Monk Seal

Mammals > Pinnipeds

The Hawaiian Monk Seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) is an ancient, solitary earless seal endemic exclusively to the remote coral atolls and volcanic islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. Known in Hawaiian as ‘Ilio-holo-i-ka-uaua’ (the dog that runs in rough...

Pirre Harlequin Frog

Amphibians > Harlequin Toads

The Pirre Harlequin Frog (Atelopus glyphus) is an exquisitely colored, jewel-like bufoid amphibian endemic strictly to the isolated cloud forests of the Serranía de Pirre within Panama’s famed Darién Gap. Belonging to the critically imperiled genus Atelopus,...