Plants > Fairy Lanterns
The Malayan Fairy Lantern (Thismia neptunis) is one of the most mysterious and otherworldly flowering plants on Earth. First discovered by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari in 1866 in the rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, the plant vanished from human...
Fish > Cyprinids
The Bornean Pygmy Minnow (Paedocypris micromegethes) is one of the smallest vertebrate animals known to science, formally described in 2006 from the ancient peat swamp forests of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Measuring barely 11 millimeters in length at full adult...
