Fish > Stomiiformes
The Shining Loosejaw (Aristostomias scintillans) is one of the most technologically astonishing predators of the oceanic twilight zone. Inhabiting deep mesopelagic waters of the eastern Pacific, this extraordinary dragonfish combines an unhinged, floorless lower jaw...
Invertebrates > Octopoda
The Discovery Dumbo Octopus (Grimpoteuthis discoveryi) is a charismatic cirrate octopod inhabiting the profound depths of the abyssal plain. Named for the ear-like fins projecting from its mantle that resemble the iconic flying elephant, this deep-water cephalopod...
Invertebrates > Bivalvia
The Methane Seep Mussel (Bathymodiolus childressi) is a remarkable deep-sea bivalve that forms massive, thriving biogenic reefs around cold hydrocarbon seeps and brine pools in the Gulf of Mexico. Living thousands of feet beneath the photic zone where sunlight never...
Birds > Rheiformes
Darwin’s Rhea (Rhea pennata), also known as the lesser rhea or choique, is an iconic large flightless ratite roaming the desolate, wind-swept plains of Patagonia and high-altitude Andean puna. Famously documented by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the HMS...
Mammals > Eulipotyphla
Cockrum’s Desert Shrew (Notiosorex cockrumi) is a tiny, highly specialized eulipotyphlan native to the sun-baked arid zones of the Sonoran Desert. Discovered and genetically differentiated from the desert shrew complex in 2003, it exemplifies extraordinary...
