What is the RAREST animal/plant you have ever seen

[joeylikesbirds]

Wow!!! This tool is awesome. This makes my #1 rarest observation this crane fly, with only 20 observations worldwide!

[donna165]

Here are my unicorns. A couple are first obs on iNat.

[colelycett]

Only been on INat for about a month but I did get a handful of ‘under 1000 total observation’ species. Rarest that I’m 100% confidant was ID’d correctly is this beauty, the Black Margate, 653 observations total.

Black Margate (Anisotremus surinamensis) from Kralendijk, Bonaire, BQ on November 5, 2025 at 08:26 AM by Cole Lycett · iNaturalist

[yongestation]

If you just want a list of the rarest taxa you’ve seen this tool gives it as a ranked list for what it’s worth

[sebastiandoak]

That tool is really nice in terms of being able to pull togather your rare find/only observer pics. Of course any of these is a testiment to the IDers skilled enough to ID a species without other photos. I am sure I have many more that could be here, but I lack the skills to confirm those species. I dont know if these rare finds are that rare, as much as, noone knows (or desires) how to look.

[tjeales]

Some very cool finds there. Love the stalk eyed fly

[sebastiandoak]

Cheers, those flies are really cool, I was pretty psyched when I found one in the jungles of Sumatra.