Amphibians > Frogs
The Common Surinam Toad (Pipa pipa) is an extraordinarily flattened, tongueless aquatic frog native to the murky tropical waters of northern South America. Renowned across developmental biology for its unprecedented reproductive strategy, the female incubates...
Mammals > Cetaceans
Deraniyagala’s Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon hotaula) is an enigmatic and extraordinarily elusive ziphiid whale inhabitant of the deepest oceanic realms of the tropical Indo-Pacific. First proposed as a distinct species in 1963 by Sri Lankan zoologist P.E.P....