New Guinea Crocodile

Reptiles > Crocodilians

The New Guinea Crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae) is a medium-sized freshwater crocodilian endemic to the sprawling, uncharted river basins and swamp forests of New Guinea. Well-adapted to interior freshwater marshes where it coexists peacefully with the larger...

Turquoise Killifish

Fish > Killifishes

The Turquoise Killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) holds an extraordinary biological world record: it is the shortest-lived vertebrate animal known to science. Native to temporary mud pools in the scorching bushveld of Mozambique that evaporate completely within weeks...

South American Lungfish

Fish > Lobe-finned Fishes

The South American Lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), locally known in South America as the Piramboia, is a living fossil that represents one of vertebrate evolution’s most remarkable bridges between fish and terrestrial four-legged animals. Endemic to the...

Deadly Conocybe

Fungi > Agarics

The Deadly Conocybe (Conocybe filaris), also widely known in modern mycological nomenclature and medical literature as Pholiotina rugosa or the rugose cone cap, is an unassuming, delicate, and lethally poisonous agaric basidiomycete fungus belonging to the family...

Mauve Stinger

Invertebrates > Cnidarians

The Mauve Stinger (Pelagia noctiluca), also celebrated in marine biology and oceanography as the purple jellyfish, glowing jellyfish, or oceanic stinger, is a small, extraordinarily beautiful, and bioluminescent scyphozoan jellyfish belonging to the family Pelagiidae....