Invertebrates > Cranchiidae & Glass Squids
The Boreal Glass Squid (Taonius borealis) is an enchanting and otherworldly cephalopod inhabiting the cold, dark waters of the subarctic North Pacific Ocean. Belonging to the glass squid family Cranchiidae, this creature is celebrated for its near-total optical...
Fungi > Bondarzewiaceae & Polypores
The Mountain Bondarzewia (Bondarzewia montana) is an impressive and colossal polypore fungus that develops as a monumental, cabbage-like rosette of overlapping, fan-shaped brackets at the bases of ancient silver firs in high montane European forests. Belonging to the...
Fish > Channichthyidae & Crocodile Icefishes
The Antarctic Icefish (Chionodraco hamatus) is one of the most astonishing biological enigmas in vertebrate evolutionary history, thriving in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean where ambient temperatures hover below the freezing point of fresh water. Belonging...
Fungi > Rhizopogonaceae & False Truffles
The Yellow False Truffle (Rhizopogon luteolus) is an ecologically vital hypogeous basidiomycete that develops partially or completely buried beneath the sandy soil and needle litter of temperate pine forests. Belonging to the false truffle family Rhizopogonaceae...
Plants > Asteraceae & Groundsels
The Giant Alpine Groundsel (Dendrosenecio keniodendron) is one of the most astonishing and prehistoric-looking giant pachycaul rosette plants on Earth, an ancient botanical titan endemic strictly to the high afroalpine moorlands of Mount Kenya. Standing up to twenty...
