Plants > Sarraceniaceae & North American Pitcher Plants
The White-topped Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia leucophylla), widely revered as the crimson pitcher plant, is regarded by botanists as the most visually breathtaking carnivorous plant native to North America. Flourishing in the sunny, waterlogged pine savannas of the Gulf...
Reptiles > Carphodactylidae & Leaf-tailed Geckos
Discovered during an expedition into the inaccessible granite mountains of northeastern Australia in 2013, the Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko (Saltuarius eximius) represents one of the most remarkable vertebrate discoveries of the twenty-first century. Endemic...
Mammals > Dasyuridae & Carnivorous Marsupials
The Crest-tailed Mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) is a robust, carnivorous marsupial endemic to the arid interior dunefields of Central Australia. Known colloquially among Aboriginal communities as the ampurta, this compact nocturnal hunter plays a keystone predatory...
Reptiles > Chamaeleonidae & Chameleons
Labord’s Chameleon (Furcifer labordi) is biologically renowned across the animal kingdom for possessing the shortest lifespan of any terrestrial tetrapod on Earth. Endemic to the harsh, drought-prone spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar, this extraordinary...
Mammals > Dinomyidae & Pacaranas
The Pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a heavy-set, gentle herbivorous rodent indigenous to the mist-draped Andean cloud forests and upper Amazon valleys. The sole surviving member of the once vast prehistoric family Dinomyidae—which formerly included extinct behemoths...
