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Introduction
The vertebrates. 1. Pushed up a mountain and into the clouds : the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) ; 2. Beneath a color 83 sky : the ucucha mouse (Thomasomys ucucha) ; 3. Going on a tapir hunt : the little black tapir (Tapirus kabomani) ; 4. A taxonomic confusion : the saki monkeys (Pithecia genus) ; 5. Scattered to the corners of the world : the Arfak pygmy bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini) ; 6. The one that got away for 160 years : Wallace's pike cichlid (Crenicichla monicae) ; 7. Here be dragons : the ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) ; 8. A century in a jar : the Thorius salamanders ; 9. From a green bowl : the overlooked squeaker frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua) ; 10. A body and a disembodied tail : Smith's hidden gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus)
The invertebrates. 11. Treasure in the by-catch : the gall wasps (Cynipoidea species) ; 12. The biomimic : the lightning cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae) ; 13. Sunk beneath the surface in a sea of beetles : Darwin's rove beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi) ; 14. The spoils of a distant war : the Congo duskhawker dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica) ; 15. A specimen in two halves : Muir's wedge-shaped beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri) ; 16. Mary Kingsley's longhorn beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae) ; 17. The giant flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus) ; 18. It came from Area 51 : the atomic tarantula spider (Aphonopelma atomicum) ; 19. The host with the most : the nematode worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira) ; 20. From a time machine on Cromwell Road : Ablett's land snail (Pseudopomatias abletti) ; 21. In sight of land : Payden's isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae) ; 22. A ball of spines : Makarov's king crab (Paralomis makarovi)
Botanical. 23. In an Ikea bag : the custard apple family (Monanthotaxis genus)
The others. 24. Waiting with their jackets on : the fossils (paleontology specimens collected by Elmer Riggs) ; 25. The first art : the earliest hominid engraving (a 500,000-year-old shell)
Epilogue
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The vertebrates. 1. Pushed up a mountain and into the clouds : the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) ; 2. Beneath a color 83 sky : the ucucha mouse (Thomasomys ucucha) ; 3. Going on a tapir hunt : the little black tapir (Tapirus kabomani) ; 4. A taxonomic confusion : the saki monkeys (Pithecia genus) ; 5. Scattered to the corners of the world : the Arfak pygmy bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini) ; 6. The one that got away for 160 years : Wallace's pike cichlid (Crenicichla monicae) ; 7. Here be dragons : the ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) ; 8. A century in a jar : the Thorius salamanders ; 9. From a green bowl : the overlooked squeaker frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua) ; 10. A body and a disembodied tail : Smith's hidden gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus)
The invertebrates. 11. Treasure in the by-catch : the gall wasps (Cynipoidea species) ; 12. The biomimic : the lightning cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae) ; 13. Sunk beneath the surface in a sea of beetles : Darwin's rove beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi) ; 14. The spoils of a distant war : the Congo duskhawker dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica) ; 15. A specimen in two halves : Muir's wedge-shaped beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri) ; 16. Mary Kingsley's longhorn beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae) ; 17. The giant flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus) ; 18. It came from Area 51 : the atomic tarantula spider (Aphonopelma atomicum) ; 19. The host with the most : the nematode worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira) ; 20. From a time machine on Cromwell Road : Ablett's land snail (Pseudopomatias abletti) ; 21. In sight of land : Payden's isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae) ; 22. A ball of spines : Makarov's king crab (Paralomis makarovi)
Botanical. 23. In an Ikea bag : the custard apple family (Monanthotaxis genus)
The others. 24. Waiting with their jackets on : the fossils (paleontology specimens collected by Elmer Riggs) ; 25. The first art : the earliest hominid engraving (a 500,000-year-old shell)
Epilogue
Illustration captions and credits.