Slender Root Rat

Mammals > Rodents

The Slender Root Rat (Gracilimus radix) is a dainty, uniquely adapted murine rodent discovered in 2016 during intensive scientific biological surveys of Mount Dako in Central Sulawesi. Earning its specific scientific epithet ‘radix’ (Latin for...

White-nose Fungus

Fungi > Ascomycota

The White-nose Fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans), formerly known as Geomyces destructans, is a cold-loving (psychrophilic) ascomycete microfungus responsible for white-nose syndrome (WNS)—one of the most devastating wildlife epizootics in recorded history....

Huon Pine

Plants > Conifers

The Huon Pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii) is an ancient, slow-growing conifer belonging to the podocarp family, found exclusively within the pristine cool-temperate rainforest river corridors of western Tasmania. Celebrated as one of the longest-lived organisms on...

Rocket Siphonophore

Invertebrates > Hydrozoans

The Rocket Siphonophore (Diphyes dispar) is an exquisite, hydrodynamic colonial hydrozoan that traverses the open epipelagic waters of the world’s oceans. Shaped like a sleek, translucent crystalline missile, this pelagic cnidarian is not a single individual,...

Klunzinger’s Soft Coral

Invertebrates > Corals

Klunzinger’s Soft Coral (Dendronephthya klunzingeri), named after the German physician and marine zoologist Carl Benjamin Klunzinger, is a magnificent, tree-like alcyonacean soft coral native to the warm, current-swept reefs of the Red Sea and tropical...