Plants > Fagaceae & Fagales
The American Chestnut (Castanea dentata), historically venerated as the undisputed ‘redwood of the East’ and the towering foundation monarch of eastern North America’s deciduous forest, is a magnificent broadleaf hardwood tree belonging to the beech...
Mammals > Bovids & Artiodactyls
The Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) is a colossal, strikingly patterned, forest-dwelling spiral-horned antelope belonging to the bovid tribe Tragelaphini within the family Bovidae. Inhabiting the dense, shadowy tropical rainforests and tangled bamboo jungles of...
Amphibians > Leptodactylids & Anura
The Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax), locally celebrated in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles as the Giant Ditch Frog or Crapeau, is one of the largest and most ecologically extraordinary anurans in the Western Hemisphere. Belonging to the family...
Reptiles > Testudinids & Testudines
The Pancake Tortoise (Malacochersus tornieri), universally celebrated across global herpetology as one of the most astonishing evolutionary departures in the chelonian world, is a small, extraordinarily specialized terrestrial tortoise belonging to the family...
Amphibians > Telmatobiids & Anura
The Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus), popularly known by its affectionate and irreverent moniker the ‘Titicaca scrotum frog’ due to its bizarre, baggy folds of loose skin, is a colossal, strictly aquatic amphibian belonging to the Andean water frog...
