Southern Right Whale Dolphin

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis peronei) is an exceptionally sleek, graceful, and visually mesmerizing cetacean belonging to the oceanic dolphin family Delphinidae, indigenous to the cold, windswept circumpolar waters of the Southern Hemisphere. First...

Fool’s Webcap

Fungi > Agarics

The Fool’s Webcap (Cortinarius orellanus), historically known across Europe as the Mountain Webcap or Deadly Webcap, is an infamous, exquisitely colored, and lethally poisonous agaric mushroom belonging to the family Cortinariaceae. Native to the warm, temperate...

Water Hemlock

Plants > Flowering Plants

Water Hemlock (Cicuta virosa), universally known across the British Isles and northern Europe as cowbane or northern water hemlock, is a tall, robust perennial semi-aquatic flowering plant belonging to the carrot and parsley family Apiaceae. Widespread across the...

Gympie Gympie

Plants > Flowering Plants

The Gympie Gympie (Dendrocnide moroides), also infamously known throughout Australia as the Mulberry-leaved Stinging Tree, gympie stinger, or the ‘suicide plant,’ is a deceptively unassuming shrub-like flowering plant belonging to the nettle family...

Black-headed Python

Reptiles > Snakes

The Black-headed Python (Aspidites melanocephalus) is an extraordinary, heavy-bodied non-venomous constrictor belonging to the python family Pythonidae, indigenous strictly to the tropical savannas, rocky ranges, and scrublands of northern Australia. Belonging to the...