Fish > Sturgeons
The Adriatic Sturgeon (Acipenser naccarii) is an ancient, armor-plated chondrostean fish endemic exclusively to the Adriatic basin and the Po River valley of northern Italy. Representing a prehistoric lineage dating back over 200 million years to the age of dinosaurs,...
Fish > Salmonids
The Beloribitsa (Stenodus leucichthys), whose name translates from Russian as ‘White Fish’ or ‘White Salmon’, is the largest and most prized coregonine salmonid on the Eurasian continent. Historically renowned as a gourmet royal delicacy across...
Birds > Anseriformes
The Madagascar Pochard (Aythya innotata), known locally as the ‘Fotsy Maso’ (White Eye), is the rarest duck in the world. Declared completely extinct in the late 1990s after decades without a verified sighting on its historic stronghold of Lake Alaotra, a...
Birds > Pelecaniformes
The White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis), also known as the Imperial Heron, is the second-largest heron on Earth and one of the 50 rarest birds on the planet. Towering well over a meter tall with an immense two-meter wingspan, this solitary giant prowls the pristine,...
Mammals > Diprotodontia
The Wondiwoi Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus mayri) is arguably the most mysterious and elusive marsupial in the world. First collected in 1928 by legendary evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr on the remote Wondiwoi Peninsula of New Guinea, it was feared extinct for exactly...
