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A desert plant with only two permanent leaves. A Japanese conifer found naturally nowhere else on Earth. A tiny moss that seems to shine green in the dark. Welwitschia mirabilis, Sciadopitys verticillata, and Schistostega pennata look no...

In the cool, rain-soaked forests of southern Chile and Argentina lives a tiny marsupial with rounded ears, dark rings around its eyes and a long tail that helps it move through branches. It is called the monito del monte—roughly, “little...