Plants > Rafflesiales
The Himalayan Sapria (Sapria himalayana) is one of the rarest and most enigmatic holoparasitic flowering plants in the world. A close botanical relative of the giant Rafflesia, this mysterious denizen of Indo-Himalayan cloud forests lives entirely inside the root...
Amphibians > Caudata
Anderson’s Crocodile Newt (Echinotriton andersoni), also known as the Ryukyu spiny newt, is a heavily armored primitive caudate endemic to a handful of subtropical islands in Japan’s Ryukyu archipelago. Renowned for its prehistoric, crocodile-like...
Reptiles > Lizards
Described in 2015 from the hyper-diverse Chocó rainforests near Alto Tambo in northwestern Ecuador, Enyalioides altotambo is a spectacularly armored hoplocercid woodlizard. Resembling a miniature dragon, this arboreal reptile is distinguished from its close Andean...
Reptiles > Geckos
Formally described in 2023 and named after the ancient, moss-draped Fangorn Forest of Tolkien’s Middle-earth lore, Uroplatus fangorn is a masterwork of natural cryptic mimicry. Native strictly to the high-elevation cloud forests of northern Madagascar, this...
Reptiles > Geckos
Formally described in 2023 after being confused with the Henkel’s Leaf-tailed Gecko for over two decades, Uroplatus garamaso is a master of cryptic crypsis endemic to the northern forests of Madagascar. Its specific epithet ‘garamaso’ derives from...
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