Velvet Cardboard Anthurium

Plants > Araceae

The Velvet Cardboard Anthurium (Anthurium clarinervium) is an aristocratic botanical masterpiece native to the shaded limestone karst cliffs of southern Mexico. Revered worldwide among plant collectors for its heart-shaped leaves that feel like thick, luxurious suede...

Marbled Cat

Mammals > Carnivorans

The Marbled Cat (Pardofelis marmorata) is an extraordinary, small, arboreal felid inhabiting the dense, multi-tiered rainforest canopies of South and Southeast Asia. Holding an evolutionary position sister to the Asiatic golden cat and bay cat, this enigmatic predator...

European Edible Sea Urchin

Invertebrates > Echinoderms

The European Edible Sea Urchin (Echinus esculentus), also celebrated in marine biology and culinary history as the common sea urchin or sea egg, is a massive, strikingly handsome regular echinoid belonging to the sea urchin family Echinidae. Indigenous to the cold,...

Reedfish

Fish > Ancient Fishes

The Reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus), universally known in the international aquarium trade and ichthyology as the Ropefish or Snakefish, is an extraordinary, archaic freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the ancient family Polypteridae. Indigenous to the warm,...

Pacific Yew

Plants > Conifers

The Pacific Yew (Taxus brevifolia), also widely known across the Pacific Northwest as the Western Yew, is a slow-growing, highly shade-tolerant evergreen conifer belonging to the yew family Taxaceae. Indigenous to the magnificent old-growth temperate rainforests of...