Satanas Beetle

Invertebrates > Coleoptera

The Satanas Beetle (Dynastes satanas), or Satanas rhinoceros beetle, is one of the most magnificent and heavily armored coleopterans on Earth. Restricted entirely to the steep, cloud-blanketed Yungas valleys of western Bolivia, this colossal dynaste beetle is...

Pigeon Mountain Salamander

Amphibians > Caudata

The Pigeon Mountain Salamander (Plethodon petraeus) is a remarkable, lungless woodland salamander found nowhere else on Earth except a narrow, 15-mile strip of rocky cliff line on Pigeon Mountain in northwestern Georgia. Discovered as recently as 1972, this...

Greater Stick-nest Rat

Mammals > Rodentia

The Greater Stick-nest Rat (Leporillus conditor), also known as the wopilkara, is a unique and gentle native Australian rodent renowned for its extraordinary architectural skills. Once widespread across the vast arid and semi-arid expanses of southern mainland...

Blind Gudgeon

Fish > Gobiiformes

The Blind Gudgeon (Milyeringa veritas) is an extraordinary, completely subterranean troglobitic freshwater fish endemic to the arid coastal limestone aquifers of the Cape Range peninsula and Barrow Island in Western Australia. Having evolved in perpetual total...

Blue-eyed Cockatoo

Birds > Psittaciformes

The Blue-eyed Cockatoo (Cacatua ophthalmica) is a magnificent, highly vocal parrot endemic strictly to the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. Instantly recognized by its brilliant, sky-blue rim of bare skin encircling each dark eye and a backwards-sweeping...