Jalca Tapaculo

Birds > Tapaculos

The Jalca Tapaculo (Scytalopus frankeae) is a fascinating, diminutive suboscine passerine discovered and scientifically described in 2020 following exhaustive vocalization and genetic analysis across the high Peruvian Andes. Inhabiting the cold, windswept...

Sula Scops Owl

Birds > Owls

The Sula Scops Owl (Otus sulaensis) is an elusive, nocturnal raptor endemic to the remote Sula Archipelago in the Maluku province of eastern Indonesia. Long treated as an insular subspecies of the Moluccan scops owl, rigorous bioacoustic surveys and morphological...

Night-blooming Orchid

Plants > Orchids

The Night-blooming Orchid (Bulbophyllum nocturnum) is a botanical marvel discovered in 2011 on the tropical island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Standing alone among more than 28,000 documented orchid species, it is the first and only known orchid species that...

Rosy-red Bolete

Fungi > Boletes

The Rosy-red Bolete (Rubroboletus rhodoxanthus) is one of Europe’s most magnificent and vibrant macrofungi, famed among mycologists for its extraordinary, dramatic coloration and striking chemical staining reactions. Native to the warm, thermophilic broadleaf...

Giant Barrel Cactus

Plants > Succulents & Cacti

The Giant Barrel Cactus (Echinocactus platyacanthus), known throughout Mexico as the ‘biznaga gigante’ or candy barrel cactus, is a monumental, slow-growing succulent that commands the arid limestone hillsides of the Chihuahuan Desert. Reaching heights...