Blue-spotted Tree Monitor

Reptiles > Monitors & Lizards

The Blue-spotted Tree Monitor (Varanus macraei) is widely celebrated as the most visually spectacular monitor lizard in the world. Described by science in 2001 and endemic exclusively to a single tiny island in the remote Raja Ampat archipelago of Indonesia, this...

Indigo Bunting

Birds > Songbirds

The Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) is a radiant, vibrant songbird renowned across eastern North America for the male’s incandescent, all-blue plumage. Often described as a ‘piece of the sky come down to earth,’ this spirited little cardinal...

Bluefin Trevally

Fish > Carangiformes

The Bluefin Trevally (Caranx melampygus), celebrated across the Pacific as the Bluefin Jack or Omilu, is one of the most stunningly, incandescently colored predatory fish on tropical coral reefs. Possessing explosive swimming acceleration and a fuselage cloaked in...

Blue Sea Star

Invertebrates > Echinoderms

The Blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata), celebrated across tropical waters as the Blue Linckia, is one of the most vividly, incandescently colored marine animals in the world’s oceans. Dressed in an unbelievable, electric cobalt-blue hue that seems almost too...

Blue Spiny Stick Insect

Invertebrates > Stick Insects

The Blue Spiny Stick Insect (Achrioptera manga) is universally hailed as one of the most breathtakingly gorgeous insects on Earth. While almost all stick insects rely on drab brown or green camouflage to hide as twigs, adult males of this colossal Malagasy species...