Mammals > Tachyglossidae & Monotremes
Barton’s Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bartoni) is a monumental and critically endangered egg-laying mammal (monotreme) endemic strictly to the rugged mountain highlands of New Guinea. Ranking among the largest extant monotremes on Earth, this living...
Reptiles > Boas & Pythons
Boelen’s Python (Simalia boeleni) is one of the most magnificent, revered, and elusive constrictors on the planet. Native exclusively to the mist-shrouded, high-altitude montane cloud forests of central New Guinea, this highland giant thrives at extreme...
Mammals > Chiroptera & Fruit Bats
Bulmer’s Fruit Bat (Aproteles bulmerae) is one of the rarest, most endangered, and enigmatic bats in the world. First described from 12,000-year-old fossil bones unearthed in a prehistoric rock shelter and thought to have vanished at the end of the Pleistocene,...
