Sehuencas Water Frog

Amphibians > Telmatobiidae & Water Frogs

The Sehuencas Water Frog (Telmatobius gigas) is a fully aquatic, cold-adapted amphibian endemic strictly to the high-elevation cloud forest cascades and mountain streams of the Bolivian Andes. Belonging to the specialized Neotropical water frog family Telmatobiidae,...

Giant Mudskipper

Fish > Gobiiformes & Mudskippers

The Giant Mudskipper (Periophthalmodon schlosseri) is the largest and most ecologically dominant member of the oxudercine goby family, renowned for spending the vast majority of its adult life active out of water. Inhabiting the intertidal mangrove mudflats and...

Bornean Flat-headed Frog

Amphibians > Frogs

The Bornean Flat-headed Frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) is an extraordinary biological marvel and the only known frog species completely devoid of lungs. Endemic exclusively to cold, torrential rainforest torrents in Indonesian Borneo, this primitive anuran has...

Hellbender

Amphibians > Salamanders

The Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), known colloquially by evocative folk names such as the ‘snot otter,’ ‘devil dog,’ and ‘Appalachian alligator,’ is North America’s largest native amphibian. Belonging to the...

Chinese Giant Salamander

Amphibians > Salamanders

The Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus) is a prehistoric aquatic titan, reigning as the largest living amphibian on Earth. Often called a ‘living fossil’ due to an ancestral lineage that dates back more than 160 million years to the Jurassic...