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Wattled smoky honeyeater
Animals; Animals
The Wattled Smoky Honeyeater (Melipotes carolae) is a species of honeyeater with a sooty-grey plumage and a black bill. The most distinctive feature is arguably the extensive reddish-orange facial ...
Megalara garuda
Animals; Animals
Megalara garuda, known colloquially as the king of wasps, is a large wasp and only species in the genus Megalara, family Crabronidae, tribe Larrini. It was discovered in 2011 by Lynn Kimsey, director ...
Louisiana pancake batfish
Animals; Animals
Louisiana pancake batfish, Halieutichthys intermedius, belongs to the Ogcocephalidae family of batfish. It is native to the Gulf of Mexico, and was discovered in 2010. The known range of the species ...
Pinocchio frog
Animals; Animals
Pinocchio frog is the informal name for a tree frog (most likely a member of the genus Litoria) discovered in the Foja mountains of Papua (province), Indonesia, by Conservation International and the ...
Jumping spider
Animals; Animals
The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping ...
Microhyla borneensis
Animals; Animals
Microhyla borneensis (junior synonym Microhyla nepenthicola), also known as the Mantang narrow-mouthed frog, is a species of microhylid frog found in the Matang Range in Sarawak, Borneo. It was once ...
Legless lizard
Animals; Animals
Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards which have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion. It is the common name for the family ...
