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The collection
All 30 bundled records are written from declared sources, fact-checked, and approved in the catalog. A record enters this index when its story is written from declared sources, its media rights are recorded, and its review state is honest about what has not happened yet.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Phocoena sinus
The world’s smallest porpoise lives nowhere else.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Panthera pardus orientalis
The world’s rarest big cat wears a winter coat.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Strigops habroptilus
The world’s heaviest parrot cannot fly—and booms in the dark.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Ambystoma mexicanum
The salamander that never grows up lives in one city’s canals.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Danaus plexippus
A migration measured in generations is growing thin.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Rhinoceros sondaicus
Every Javan rhino on Earth lives in a single park.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Gorilla beringei beringei
The only great ape whose numbers are rising.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Eubalaena glacialis
Whalers called it the right whale to kill. About 380 remain.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Panthera uncia
The ghost of the mountains is real — and almost never seen.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Gymnogyps californianus
Down to 22 birds, biologists captured every last one. It worked.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
No scientist has ever seen one alive in the wild.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Pongo abelii
It lives its whole life in the trees — and the trees are falling.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Eretmochelys imbricata
The world's tortoiseshell came from this one turtle.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Grus americana
By 1941, fifteen were left. They danced their way back.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Gavialis gangeticus
A crocodile with a hundred teeth — and no taste for anything but fish.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Lynx pardinus
In 2002: 94 left. Today: more than 2,000.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Bombus affinis
A garden can help save this one. Really — yours.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Panthera tigris altaica
By the 1940s, twenty or thirty remained. The largest cat came back.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Leontopithecus rosalia
A third of the wild ones descend from zoo-born monkeys. It worked.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis
The Yangtze already lost its dolphin. Its porpoise is smiling back.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Pithecophaga jefferyi
One eagle needs a forest bigger than Manhattan.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Canis simensis
Africa's rarest carnivore lives on islands in the sky.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Calidris pygmaea
A sparrow-sized bird with a spoon for a bill — and 8,000 km to fly.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Andrias davidianus
It outlasted the dinosaurs. It may not outlast the menu.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Acropora cervicornis
The reef is an animal. And it can be replanted.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Astrochelys yniphora
So poached, conservationists engrave the shells.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Lepidochelys kempii
Once, 40,000 nested in a day. By 1985: 702 nests all year.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Canis rufus
Every red wolf on Earth descends from fourteen animals.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Corvus hawaiiensis
Extinct in the wild since 2002. Five now fly over Maui.
Abstract interface study · not a species depiction.
Wollemia nobilis
Known only from fossils — until a ranger walked into its canyon.
Catalog boundary
Thirty approved records. No invented overflow.
A new record appears only after its sources, rights, location safety, and editorial review pass the production catalog standard. Catalog approval does not claim that the app has been publicly released.