Furred Legless Lizard

Reptiles > Legless Lizards

The Furred Legless Lizard (Aprasia aurita) is a secretive, slender fossorial squamate belonging to the endemic Australasian family Pygopodidae. Despite its superficial resemblance to a miniature earth snake, this specialized reptile is anatomically a modified gecko...

Waddy Wood

Plants > Legumes & Wattles

Waddy Wood (Acacia peuce), also known as Birdsville Wattle or Akerre, is an ancient, enigmatic desert tree that stands as a silent sentinel across some of Australia’s harshest, most desolate gibber plains. Featuring a distinctive weeping habit reminiscent of a...

Great Desert Skink

Reptiles > Skinks

The Great Desert Skink (Liopholis kintorei), known to Anangu Traditional Owners as Tjakura, is a large, social burrowing lizard native to the arid sandy deserts of Central Australia. Celebrated in Indigenous culture and ecology, this gentle, terracotta-colored reptile...

Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale

Mammals > Marsupials

The Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale pirata) is a dynamic, arboreal carnivorous marsupial native to the monsoonal woodlands of northern Australia. Instantly identifiable by its magnificent, jet-black bottlebrush tail that puffs out when agitated, this...

Murray River Crayfish

Invertebrates > Crustaceans

The Murray River Crayfish (Euastacus armatus) is the second-largest freshwater crayfish in the world, eclipsed in dimensions only by its Tasmanian relative. Renowned for its formidable porcelain-white pincers and heavily spined green-brown carapace, this armored...