Mammals > Eulipotyphla
The Mindanao Gymnure (Podogymnura truei), also known as the Mindanao moonrat, is a charming, ancient insectivoran mammal endemic exclusively to the misty mountain peaks of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines. Belonging to the family Erinaceidae—the same...
Plants > Asparagales
The Desert Orchid (Eulophia petersii) shatters the conventional perception of orchids as fragile, moisture-loving epiphytes of steamy tropical cloud forests. Flourishing across the sun-baked savannas, rocky inselbergs, and hyper-arid thorn scrublands of East Africa...
Invertebrates > Mantodea
The South American Dead Leaf Mantis (Acanthops falcata) is an astonishing pinnacle of evolutionary masquerade, exhibiting morphological mimicry so complete that it effortlessly deceives both prospective prey and keen-eyed predators. Inhabiting the shadowed lower...
Fish > Gobiiformes
The Desert Goby (Chlamydogobius eremius) is an extraordinary biological marvel of physiological resilience, thriving in one of the most hostile, arid aquatic environments on the planet. Endemic exclusively to the remote artesian mound springs and bore drains of the...
Reptiles > Squamata
The Cardamom Horned Agama (Acanthosaura cardamomensis), scientifically described in 2010, is a dramatic, dragon-like arboreal lizard restricted to the cloud-covered peaks and river valleys of the Cardamom Mountains in southwestern Cambodia and adjacent Thailand....
