The vertebrates. Pushed up a mountain and into the clouds: the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) --
Beneath a color 83 sky: the ucucha mouse (Thomasomys ucucha) --
Going on a tapir hunt: the little black tapir (Tapirus kabomani) --
A taxonomic confusion: the saki monkeys (Pithecia genus) --
Scattered to the corners of the world: the Arfak pygmy bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini) --
One that got away for 160 years: Wallace's pike cichlid (Crenicichla monicae) --
Here be dragons: the ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) --
A century in a jar: the Thorius salamanders --
From a green bowl: the overlooked squeaker frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua) --
A body and a disembodied tail: Smith's hidden gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus) --
The invertebrates. Treasure in the by-catch: the gall wasps (Cynipoidea species) --
Biomimic: the lightning cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae) --
Sunk beneath the surface in a sea of beetles: Darwin's rove beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi) --
Spoils of a distant war: the Congo duskhawker dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica) --
A specimen in two halves: Muir's wedge-shaped beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri) -- Mary Kingsley's longhorn beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae) --
Giant flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus) --
It came from area 51: the atomic tarantula spider (Aphonopelma atomicum) -- The host with the most: the nematode worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira) --
From a time machine on Cromwell Road: Ablett's land snail (Pseudopomatias abletti) --
In sight of land: Payden's isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae) --
A ball of spines: Makarov's king crab (Paralomis makarovi) --
Botanical. In an Ikea bag: the custard apple family (Monanthotaxis genus) --
The others. Waiting with their jackets on: the fossils (paleontology specimens collected by Elmer Riggs)
The first art: the earliest hominid engraving (a 500,000-year-old shell).
