Diurnal

Belted Kingfisher

Bank-burrower. Perch-watcher. Plunge-diver.

Vermilion Flycatcher

A spark of red on the riverbank

Tufted Titmouse

Crested whistler of eastern woods

Boxachi

Big-dog heart, small-dog spark

Thresher Shark

The shark that hunts with a whip

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

White-tipped wings of the high seas

African Golden Cat

The rainforest's hidden cat of many colors

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Megalochelys

A fossil giant with a living legacy

Meiolania

Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.

Arsinoitherium

Rhino looks, afrotherian roots

Hainosaurus

Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas

Stupendemys

Side-necked titan of ancient rivers

Coryphodon

Big browser of the Eocene wetlands

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Macrauchenia

South America's long-necked mystery mammal

Dinopithecus

The giant baboon of ancient Africa

Doedicurus

Ice Age armadillo with a mace tail

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Archaeoindris

Madagascar's lost giant sloth lemur

Toxodon

The Pampas' hippo-like grazer

Paleoparadoxia

The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"

Scallops

The clapping swimmers of the seafloor

Executioner Wasp

Big paper wasp, bigger attitude