Leonard’s Rafflesia

Plants > Rafflesiaceae & Parasitic Plants

Leonard’s Rafflesia (Rafflesia leonardi) is a colossal and critically endangered parasitic flowering plant endemic strictly to the remote Sierra Madre rainforests of northeastern Luzon in the Philippines. Described scientifically in 2008 and named in honor of...

White Cave Velvet Worm

Invertebrates > Peripatopsidae & Velvet Worms

The White Cave Velvet Worm (Peripatopsis alba) is one of the world’s rarest and most evolutionarily distinct invertebrates, an ancient troglobitic onychophoran confined entirely to a single subterranean cave network beneath Table Mountain in Cape Town, South...

Banggai Crow

Birds > Corvidae & Crows

The Banggai Crow (Corvus unicolor) is one of the rarest, most elusive corvid species on Earth, an enigmatic forest crow endemic strictly to the mountainous interior of Peleng Island in eastern Indonesia. Known for over a century from only two museum specimens...

Giant Featherback

Fish > Notopteridae & Featherbacks

The Giant Featherback (Chitala lopis), known across Indonesia as ‘Belida Lopis,’ is a colossal, prehistoric-looking osteoglossiform knife fish that reigns as the largest member of the featherback family (Notopteridae). Reaching lengths of nearly five feet,...

Mariana Crow

Birds > Corvidae & Crows

The Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi), known indigenously in Chamorro as the Åga, is a critically imperiled island corvid native strictly to the Mariana archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean. Renowned as the only native crow species inhabiting Micronesia, this...