Tooth-billed Bowerbird

Birds > Passeriformes

The Tooth-billed Bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris), also known as the stagemaker bowerbird, is a singular avian architect native exclusively to the mist-draped upland rainforests of Queensland’s Wet Tropics in northeastern Australia. Unlike avenue- or...

Longhorn Cowfish

Fish > Tetraodontiformes

The Longhorn Cowfish (Lactoria cornuta) is one of the most unmistakable and comical inhabitants of tropical coral reefs worldwide. Recognizable by two prominent forward-pointing bovine ‘horns’ protruding from above its eyes, this member of the boxfish...

Brown Dorcopsis

Mammals > Diprotodontia

The Brown Dorcopsis (Dorcopsis muelleri), also recognized as Mueller’s dorcopsis, is an enchanting small forest wallaby endemic to the dense tropical lowland rainforests of western New Guinea and adjacent Raja Ampat islands. Belonging to the family Macropodidae,...

Large-flowered Butterwort

Plants > Lamiales

The Large-flowered Butterwort (Pinguicula grandiflora) is a magnificent insectivorous perennial belonging to the bladderwort family (Lentibulariaceae). Native to the high mountain ranges of southwestern Europe, this alpine beauty is celebrated for its oversized, showy...

Sulfide Annelid Worm

Invertebrates > Polychaeta

The Sulfide Annelid Worm (Paralvinella sulfincola) is an extraordinary extremophile polychaete that inhabits the most physiologically punishing environment on Earth: the mineral-crusted walls of active deep-sea hydrothermal ‘black smoker’ chimneys....