Mammals > Rodents
The Namdapha Flying Squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi) is one of the world’s rarest and most enigmatic arboreal rodents, known to science from a single type specimen collected in 1981 in the dense jungles of northeastern India. Inhabiting the steep, mist-cloaked...
Amphibians > Rainfrogs
The Vanishing Rainfrog (Craugastor evanesco) is a poignant and critically imperiled amphibian species discovered in the misty cloud forests of Panama’s Darién Gap. Described in 2010 by a team of international herpetologists and given the scientific name...
Birds > Rails & Crakes
The New Caledonian Rail (Gallirallus lafresnayanus) is an exceptionally rare, flightless avian ghost inhabiting the misty, cloud-shrouded montane peaks of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia in the southwestern Pacific. First described in 1860 by French...
Mammals > Primates
The Caquetá Titi (Plecturocebus caquetensis) is one of the world’s most endangered and geographically restricted primate species, described to Western science only in 2010. Endemic exclusively to a small, intensely fragmented lowland forest belt between the...
Reptiles > Iguanas
The Oaxacan Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura oaxacana) is a heavily armored, arboreal iguanid lizard endemic strictly to the arid Pacific lowlands of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. Characterized by a muscular tail ringed in sharp, defensive spinous...
