Invertebrates > Octopuses & Cirrata
The Glowing Sucker Octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis) is one of the most enigmatic and mesmerizing cephalopods inhabiting the sunless bathypelagic depths of the North Atlantic. Belonging to the cirrate (finned) octopus suborder, this delicate, gelatinous creature...
Plants > Carnivorous Plants
The Golden Corkscrew Plant (Genlisea aurea) is one of the most botanically unique carnivorous flora on Earth, native to the sun-baked, mist-bathed quartzite summits of Brazil’s campos rupestres highlands. Completely lacking true biological roots, this perennial...
Invertebrates > Beetles & Chrysomelidae
The Golden Tortoise Beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata) is an exquisite, gem-like insect belonging to the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae). Native broadly to the Americas, this small phytophagous beetle looks remarkably like a gleaming drop of molten 24-karat gold...
Fish > Gobiiformes & Mudskippers
The Giant Mudskipper (Periophthalmodon schlosseri) is the largest and most ecologically dominant member of the oxudercine goby family, renowned for spending the vast majority of its adult life active out of water. Inhabiting the intertidal mangrove mudflats and...
Reptiles > Agamids & Lizards
The Secret Toad-headed Agama (Phrynocephalus mystaceus) is one of the most anatomically extraordinary psammophilic lizards populating the vast, shifting sand deserts of Central Asia. Perfectly adapted to survival amidst blowing barchan dunes, this stout-bodied agamid...
