Fish > Syngnathiformes
The Deocata Pipefish (Microphis deocata) is a slender, exquisite freshwater relative of seahorses native to the great river basins of northeast India and Bangladesh. Unlike the vast majority of syngnathids that dwell in marine coral reefs or brackish estuaries, this...
Fungi > Agaricales
The Powdery Parasitic Mushroom (Squamanita paradoxa) is one of the most enigmatic oddities in the fungal kingdom. Rather than rotting dead wood or trading nutrients with tree roots, this bizarre agaric is an obligate mycoparasite that attacks other living gilled...
Fungi > Agaricales
The Blue-green Leratiomyces (Leratiomyces atrovirens) is a visually arresting saprotrophic mushroom found in the damp, moss-draped temperate forests of southeastern Australia and New Zealand. Renowned among mycologists for its vivid verdigris, turquoise-blue, or dark...
Invertebrates > Decapoda
The Living Fossil Glyphoid Lobster (Neoglyphea inopinata) is one of the most astonishing zoological rediscoveries of the 20th century. Glyphoid crustaceans flourished throughout the Mesozoic era during the age of the dinosaurs and were believed to have gone extinct...
Invertebrates > Cnidaria
Dendrogramma (Dendrogramma enigmatica) captivated the international biological community upon its formal description in 2014 as a putative ‘living fossil’ resembling enigmatic Precambrian Ediacaran organisms. Originally collected from the deep bathyal...
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