Fish > Requiem Sharks & Carcharhiniformes
The Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas), widely renowned across elasmobranch physiology as one of the most astonishingly adaptable predators on the planet, is an immense, heavy-bodied requiem shark belonging to the family Carcharhinidae. Distributed throughout the warm...
Amphibians > Giant Salamanders & Cryptobranchids
The Japanese Giant Salamander (Andrias japonicus), revered across Japanese folklore as the ‘Ōsanshōuo’ (giant pepper fish) due to its peppery-smelling defensive skin secretions, is a colossal, entirely aquatic amphibian belonging to the ancient family...
Mammals > Viverrids & Carnivorans
The Binturong (Arctictis binturong), widely known in popular lore as the ‘bearcat’ despite being neither a bear nor a cat, is a colossal, arboreal viverrid belonging to the civet family Viverridae, indigenous to the dense tropical rainforest canopies of...
Invertebrates > Insects & Orthopterans
The Giant Weta (Deinacrida heteracantha), known natively in Māori as the ‘wētāpunga’ (the god of ugly things), is a colossal, flightless, nocturnal orthopteran insect belonging to the family Anostostomatidae, endemic exclusively to New Zealand. Celebrated...
