Plants > Pitcher Plants
The Rajah Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes rajah) is widely recognized as the undisputed monarch of carnivorous flora. Endemic strictly to the windswept, mist-covered ultramafic slopes of Mount Kinabalu and neighboring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, this...
Birds > Trogons
The Javan Trogon (Apalharpactes reinwardtii) is one of the most visually breathtaking and critically imperiled avian treasures of the Indonesian archipelago. Confined strictly to the misty, cloud-swathed mountain ridges of western and central Java, this canopy dweller...
Mammals > Rodents
The Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens) is a charismatic, desert-adapted nocturnal rodent endemic strictly to the arid grasslands of California’s San Joaquin Valley and neighboring inland valleys. As the largest representative of the family Heteromyidae, this...
Plants > Cycads
The Micronesian Cycad (Cycas micronesica), known locally as fadang in the Mariana Islands, is an ancient, palm-like arborescent gymnosperm belonging to an evolutionary lineage that predates the dinosaurs. Historically dominant in the coastal limestone forests of Guam,...
Reptiles > Skinks
Barbour’s Skink (Plestiodon barbouri) is a sleek, forest-floor lizard native exclusively to the ancient subtropical archipelago of southwestern Japan. Named in honor of the renowned American herpetologist Thomas Barbour, this species is a specialist of the humid...
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