Great White Pelican

Birds > Waterfowl

The Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), also celebrated historically across Eurasia and Africa as the Eastern White Pelican or Rosy Pelican, is a colossal, magnificent waterbird belonging to the ancient pelican family Pelecanidae. Boasting one of the largest...

Chital

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Chital (Axis axis), also globally celebrated as the Spotted Deer, Axis Deer, or Cheetal, is an exceptionally graceful, moderately sized cervid belonging to the deer family Cervidae, native to the sun-dappled sal forests, alluvial grasslands, and open woodlands of...

Harbor Seal

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina), also celebrated historically and ecologically as the Common Seal, is the most widespread and familiar member of the true seal family Phocidae, native to the temperate and Arctic coastal waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Stretching...

Deadly Dapperling

Fungi > Agarics

The Deadly Dapperling (Lepiota brunneoincarnata), also widely known in medical and mycological literature as the fatal parasol, is an unassuming, medium-sized, and lethally poisonous agaric basidiomycete fungus belonging to the family Agaricaceae. Native to the warm,...

Blanket Octopus

Invertebrates > Cephalopods

The Blanket Octopus (Tremoctopus violaceus), also known as the Common Blanket Octopus or Violet Blanket Octopus, is an extraordinarily majestic, pelagic cephalopod belonging to the family Tremoctopodidae. Inhabiting the sunlit epipelagic and mesopelagic waters of...