Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard

Reptiles > Skinks

The Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard (Tiliqua adelidensis) is one of Australia’s most sensational zoological Lazarus species. Long feared extinct and known only from twenty museum specimens collected in the late 19th century, this miniature skink was spectacularly...

Northern Bettong

Mammals > Bettongs

The Northern Bettong (Bettongia tropica) is a critically imperiled, rabbit-sized marsupial belonging to the rat-kangaroo family (Potoroidae). Endemic to a vanishingly narrow ecological transition zone along the western margin of northern Queensland’s Wet...

Lord Howe Island Wood-feeding Cockroach

Invertebrates > Cockroaches

The Lord Howe Island Wood-feeding Cockroach (Panesthia lata) is an extraordinary, flightless, wood-eating insect found nowhere else on Earth but the remote oceanic archipelago of Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Far removed from domestic household pests, this...

Noisy Scrub-bird

Birds > Scrub-birds

The Noisy Scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus) represents one of the most celebrated ‘Lazarus species’ rediscoveries in modern ornithological history. Presumed extinct for over six decades following its last nineteenth-century recording in 1889, this...

Southern Dibbler

Mammals > Marsupials

The Southern Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) is a small, highly endangered dasyurid marsupial endemic to the south coast and western offshore islands of Western Australia. Feared extinct for over eight decades following the arrival of European agricultural...