
6/150: Yellow cedars get cold feet
Plantae: Pinophyta: Pinidae: Pinales: Cupressaceae: Callitropsis: Callitropsis nootkatensis (D. Don, 1824) One of the oldest ...

5/150: Tiny spiders crawl their way into the record books
Animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Anapidae: Comaroma: Comaroma mendocino (Levi, 1957) Comaroma mendocino is a new ...

4/150: Rainbows and Death in the Canadian Pacific
Animalia: Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Forcipulatida : Asteriidae: Orthasterias: Orthasterias koehleri (Deloriol, 1897) Did you see Star ...

3/150: I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice – Wolverine, 1982
Animalia: Chordata: Mammalia: Carnivora: Gulo: Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Wolverine (Gulo gulo) is an ...

2/150: Scorpionflies, pollinating before it was cool
Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Mecoptera: Panorpidae: Panorpa: Panorpa submaculosa (Carpenter 1931) Mecoptera are primitive insects that are ...

1/150: These Fireflies are Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photuris quadrifulgens (Barber, 1951) Photuris quadrifulgens is a species in the ...