Screaming Piha

Birds > Cotingas

The Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans) is celebrated worldwide as the quintessential sonic voice of the Amazon rainforest. While outwardly unassuming with its plain, drab gray-brown plumage, this remarkable suboscine cotinga possesses one of the loudest bird...

Princess Stephanie’s Astrapia

Birds > Birds-of-Paradise

Princess Stephanie’s Astrapia (Astrapia stephaniae) is a magnificent, long-tailed bird-of-paradise endemic to the high-elevation cloud forests of Papua New Guinea’s central spine. Named in honor of Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, adult males possess...

Titania’s Woolly Bat

Mammals > Woolly Bats

Titania’s Woolly Bat (Kerivoula titania), named after Titania the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is an ethereal, miniature microbat discovered in the mist-veiled limestone karst forests of mainland Southeast Asia....

Delicate Lattice Stinkhorn

Fungi > Stinkhorns

The Delicate Lattice Stinkhorn (Clathrus delicatus) is an astonishingly intricate clathroid basidiomycete fungus native to the humid subtropical rainforest understories of South America’s Atlantic Forest and Southern Cone. Resembling a miniature, hollow soccer...

Hades Centipede

Invertebrates > Centipedes

The Hades Centipede (Geophilus hadesi), named after Hades—the mythological god of the underworld—is a legendary troglobitic arthropod discovered deep within the subterranean limestone abyss of the Velebit mountains in Croatia. Holding the world record as the...