Bolivian Water Lily

Plants > Water Lilies

The Bolivian Water Lily (Victoria boliviana) is a colossal, visually staggering aquatic mega-herb belonging to the water lily family Nymphaeaceae. Formally described to science in July 2022 by a team of botanical researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in...

Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin

Mammals > Cetaceans

The Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis), globally renowned and celebrated across East Asia as the Chinese White Dolphin or Pink Dolphin, is an extraordinary, charismatic coastal cetacean belonging to the oceanic dolphin family Delphinidae. Indigenous to...

Humboldt Penguin

Birds > Penguins

The Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti), also celebrated across South America as the patranca or coastal penguin, is a medium-sized, charismatic flightless seabird belonging to the banded penguin genus Spheniscus within the family Spheniscidae. Endemic to the...

Indonesian Coelacanth

Fish > Lobe-finned Fishes

The Indonesian Coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis), known in the local Indonesian dialect of Manado as the raja laut (‘King of the Sea’), is an extraordinary, archaic marine sarcopterygian fish belonging to the order Coelacanthiformes. Discovered by science...

Northern Cassowary

Birds > Ratites

The Northern Cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus), celebrated across Melanesia as the Single-wattled Cassowary or Golden-necked Cassowary, is a colossal, heavy-bodied flightless ratite bird endemic to the dense tropical lowland rainforests and coastal swamps of...