Hispaniolan Solenodon

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...

Hispaniolan Hutia

Mammals > Capromyidae & Caribbean Hutias

The Hispaniolan Hutia (Plagiodontia aedium), locally known in Hispaniola as the Zagouti, is one of only two surviving native non-volant land mammals on the entire island of Hispaniola (alongside the Hispaniolan Solenodon). Representing the sole extant member of its...