Fish > Minnows & Carps
The Humpback Chub (Gila cypha) is an awe-inspiring, prehistoric-looking native fish exquisitely engineered to conquer the roaring, silt-choked whitewater rapids of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River. With its bizarre, pronounced fleshy dorsal hump, pencil-thin caudal...
Reptiles > Lizards
The Island Night Lizard (Xantusia riversiana) is a magnificent, ancient reptilian relict found nowhere on Earth except three windswept islands in the California Channel Islands archipelago. The largest member of the night lizard family, this heavy-bodied island...
Invertebrates > Insects
The Wood White (Leptidea sinapis) is one of the most ethereal, delicate, and poetically graceful butterflies in the European insect fauna. Belonging to the family Pieridae, it bears no resemblance to the robust, fast-flying cabbage whites; instead, this woodland...
