Plants > Didiereaceae & Succulents
The Madagascar Ocotillo (Alluaudia procera), known natively across southwestern Madagascar as ‘fantsiholitra’, is an extraordinary, tall, columnar deciduous succulent tree belonging to the family Didiereaceae—a bizarre botanical family almost entirely...
Plants > Asteraceae & Alpine Flora
The Edelweiss (Leontopodium nivale, historically Leontopodium alpinum), celebrated across European alpine mythology and mountaineering lore as the ‘noble white flower’ (from German ‘edel’ noble and ‘weiß’ white), is a legendary,...
Reptiles > Iguanids & Lizards
The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana), celebrated across herpetology as the definitive archetype of large herbivorous lizards, is an immense, arboreal squamate reptile belonging to the iguana family Iguanidae, indigenous to the tropical river basins and rainforest canopies...
Fish > Billfishes & Istiophoriformes
The Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus), celebrated across marine biology and big-game angling as the fastest and most magnificent apex sprinter in the world’s oceans, is an immense, streamlined pelagic billfish belonging to the family Istiophoridae. Inhabiting...
Fish > Eels & Anguilliformes
The Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) is an immense, heavy-bodied apex marine predator belonging to the true moray family Muraenidae, widely distributed throughout the tropical coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific. Standing as the largest of all moray eels by body mass...
