Crepuscular

Pied-Billed Grebe

Thick-billed master of the marsh

Goral

Built for cliffs, not flatlands

Bhutan Takin

Bhutan's Roman-nosed mountain bovid

Decorator Crab

Wear the reef. Fool the predator.

Trapdoor spider

Hidden door, lightning strike.

Sehuencas Water Frog

Bolivia's stream sentinel

Javan Leopard

Java's hidden rosettes in the mist

Amano Shrimp

Algae patrol with a secret sea stage

Ocean Whitefish

A tilefish by blood, a whitefish by name

Limpet

Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.

Ostracod

Tiny shells, huge history

Knifefish

Life in South America, powered by volts

Kaluga Sturgeon

Giant hunter of the Amur

Dimetrodon

Permian sailback-before dinosaurs

Eryops

Permian powerhouse of the ponds

Haikouichthys

A tiny fossil at vertebrates' dawn

Ornithocheirus

Bird-hand ruler of Cretaceous skies

Purussaurus

Miocene mega-caiman of South America

Allosaurus

Jurassic hunter of the Morrison

Lystrosaurus

The beaked survivor of Earth's worst crisis

Vegavis

A polar clue to waterfowl origins

Scutosaurus

Permian armor, plant-powered

Pachycephalosaurus

Built like a bipedal battering ram

Palaeoloxodon namadicus

The giant straight-tusked titan of Ice-Age India