Forest Owlet

Birds > Strigidae & Owls

The Forest Owlet (Athene blewitti) is one of the most celebrated ‘Lazarus species’ in global ornithology, an extraordinary small raptor endemic strictly to the dry deciduous teak forests of central India. Believed extinct for an astonishing 113 years...

Ornate Eagle Ray

Fish > Myliobatidae & Eagle Rays

The Ornate Eagle Ray (Aetomylaeus vespertilio), celebrated across marine biology as one of the most magnificent and elusive elasmobranchs on Earth, is a colossal batoid that glides like a celestial phantom across the warm waters of the Indo-West Pacific. Reaching...

Walker’s Sierra Frog

Amphibians > Craugastoridae & Rain Frogs

Walker’s Sierra Frog (Geobatrachus walkeri) is a tiny, ancient, and highly specialized anuran endemic exclusively to the misty mountain crests of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta—the highest coastal mountain range in the world. As the sole...

Cropan’s Boa

Reptiles > Boidae & Boas

Cropan’s Boa (Corallus cropanii) is celebrated across global herpetology as one of the rarest, most secretive, and least understood snakes on Earth. Endemic strictly to a tiny coastal lowland enclave within Brazil’s imperiled Atlantic Forest, this mythical...

Walden’s Hornbill

Birds > Bucerotidae & Hornbills

Walden’s Hornbill (Aceros waldeni), known locally as the ‘dulungan’ or ‘kalaw,’ is one of the world’s most critically imperiled hornbills, endemic strictly to the fractured rainforests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines....