Diurnal

Cormorant

Dive deep. Hunt sleek. Dry proud.

Bullboxer

Powerful heart, playful paws.

Treehopper

Helmets on, vibrations on.

Agkistrodon Contortrix

Hourglass bands. Hidden hunter.

Savannah Monitor

West Africa's clawed ground-forager

Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant

Big crest. Tiny flycatcher.

Spotted Garden Eel

The plankton-picker of the sand flats

Nematode

Roundworms: small bodies, huge impact

Kouprey

Kouprey: the vanishing forest ox

Leafcutter Ant

Farmers of the forest floor

Keyhole Cichlid

Small cichlid, big-family devotion

Uromastyx (Spiny-Tailed Lizard)

Spiny tails, desert scales, plant power.

Zokor

Engineers of the Asian underworld

Uaru Cichlid

Amazon's gentle giant with a triangle badge

Yellowjacket (Yellow Jacket)

Paper nests, sharp teamwork, bold stripes

Mollusk

One phylum, endless forms

Hartebeest

Built for the long run on the plains

Inchworm

Loop, look like a twig, and live on leaves

Owlfly (Ascalaphidae)

Big eyes. Clubbed antennae. Pure predator.

Gourami

Gulp air, build nests, rule the shallows

Kissing Gourami

Not a kiss-it's a contest.

Olympic Marmot

Olympic Mountains' whistling burrower

Pacific Coast Tick

Ornate hunter of the Pacific slopes

Western Blacklegged Tick

Pacific Coast tick, outsized impact.