Fauna

Daintree Rainforest Spiders Daintree Rainforest is habitat to giant Golden Orb-weavers, Brush-footed Trapdoors, Ant-mimicking Spiders, Bird-dung Crab Spiders and an amazing diversity of other arachnids, [...]

Daintree Rainforest reptiles Daintree Rainforest reptiles include Australia's largest reptile, the Estuarine Crocodile and longest snake, Amethystine Python.  These two apex predators have a profound [...]

Daintree Mammals - Cooper Creek Wilderness Daintree Rainforest mammals include marsupials, monotremes, dasyurids, macropods, possums and a rich diversity of placentals, including primates, bats, [...]

Daintree Rainforest insects - Cooper Creek Wilderness Daintree Rainforest insects are as rich in diversity, primitiveness and endemism as every other Daintree class, phyla [...]

Daintree Rainforest frogs Daintree Rainforest Frogs include the world's ancestral Hylid stock, Microhylids, Myobatrachids and Rana clades. Magnificently concealed for the greater part of the [...]

Daintree Rainforest Birds Daintree Rainforest Bird Phylogeny Palaeognathae - (Cassowaries) Casuariidae (Cassowaries) Southern Cassowary - Casuarius casuarius Neognathae - Galloanserae (fowls, ducks, & relatives) [...]

Known as Jalbil over these past two-thousand or more generations, but much more recently, ‘Boyd’s Forest Dragon (Hypsilurus boydii); this living dinosaur, a Jurassic relictual species, [...]