Invertebrates > Branchiopods
The Tadpole Shrimp (Triops cancriformis) is widely celebrated by paleontologists as the oldest living animal species on Earth, possessing an anatomical body plan that has persisted virtually unchanged for over 220 million years since the Triassic period. Resembling a...
Reptiles > Rhynchocephalians
The Brothers Island Tuatara (Sphenodon guntheri) is an extraordinary reptilian relic endemic to the rugged Cook Strait region of New Zealand. Representing one of only two surviving species of the ancient order Rhynchocephalia, which flourished over 200 million years...
Invertebrates > Peripatidae & Velvet Worms
Solórzano’s Giant Velvet Worm (Peripatus solorzanoi) is a biological marvel and the largest living representative of the ancient phylum Onychophora on planet Earth. Discovered in the rainforests of northeastern Costa Rica and scientifically described in 2010,...
Invertebrates > Peripatidae & Velvet Worms
Acacio’s Velvet Worm (Peripatus acacioi) is an astonishing terrestrial invertebrate belonging to the phylum Onychophora, an ancient lineage of ‘velvet worms’ that has endured virtually unchanged for over 500 million years since the Cambrian period....
