Nocturnal

Horned Viper

Horns in the sand, strike from stillness

Nyala

Striped shadows of the thicket

Snouted Cobra

Big hood. Bold snout. Serious venom.

Asp

The original "asp" of the Nile

Dwarf Hamster

Small hamsters, big steppe survival

Jackrabbit

Long ears. Longer legs. Lightning leaps.

Eurasian Beaver

Nature's wetland engineer

Eurasian Lynx

Silent forest hunter with tufted ears

Kit Fox

Big ears. Cool survival.

European Polecat

Masked hunter with a musky warning

European Wildcat

Blunt tail. Bold rings. True wild Europe.

Banana Ball Python

Sunshine coils with a lavender glow

Eastern Rat Snake

Barn-Patrolling, Tree-Climbing Black Snake

Sambar

Asia's heavyweight forest deer

Spider-Tailed Horned Viper

A viper with a spider on its tail.

Carpet Viper

Hear the hiss, heed the saw

Telescopefishes (Giganturids)

Built to see in the abyss

Blanket Octopus

The open-ocean octopus with a living cape

Unau (Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth)

Two claws, night life, rainforest slow

Natterjack

The stripe-backed toad that runs and roars

Copperhead

Hourglass bands, hidden in plain sight

Timber Rattlesnake (Canebrake Rattlesnake)

The forest rattler: warn first, strike last

German Cockroach

Two stripes. One unstoppable house pest.

Kirtland's Snake

Red-bellied ghost of wet prairies