Amphibians > Caudata
The Saltator False Brook Salamander (Pseudoeurycea saltator) is an extraordinary lungless salamander endemic strictly to the moisture-drenched cloud forest peaks of the Sierra de Juárez in Oaxaca, Mexico. Belonging to the family Plethodontidae, this delicate amphibian...
Reptiles > Squamata
The Rock Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma ditmarsi), also known as Ditmars’ horned lizard, is one of the most enigmatic and morphologically peculiar reptiles in North America. Following its initial scientific description in 1906, the species vanished from scientific...
Birds > Tinamiformes
The Dwarf Tinamou (Taoniscus nanus) is one of the smallest, rarest, and most elusive paleognathous birds in the world. Standing barely five inches tall and weighing scarcely more than a large sparrow, this miniature relative of ostriches and emus is endemic strictly...
Mammals > Lagomorpha
Koslov’s Pika (Ochotona koslowi) is one of the rarest, most elusive high-altitude lagomorphs on Earth. First collected in the remote Kunlun Mountains by Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov in 1884, the species was lost to science for nearly a century before being...
Mammals > Eulipotyphla
The Hispaniolan Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) is a living relic of prehistoric mammalian evolution, having split from all other placental mammals over 76 million years ago during the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. Confined to the Caribbean...
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