Nocturnal

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Blackburnian Warbler

Look up for the fire-throat

Hammond's flycatcher

Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid

Black-Bellied Whistling Duck

The whistling "tree duck" with style

Panthera atrox (American Lion)

North America's Ice Age lion

Thylacoleo carnifex

Australia's "lion" with a marsupial bite

Hippopotamus gorgops

The high-eyed hippo of deep time

Thylacosmilus

The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat

Dinocrocuta

Not a hyena-just built like one.

Elephant Bird

Madagascar's lost giants of the egg

Axanthic Ball Python

All the pattern-none of the yellow

Hammerhead Worm

Hammerhead hunters of the soil

Oilfish

Deep-water predator with a waxy secret

Bearded Fireworm

Look, don't touch-the reef's fire-beard

Angled Sunbeam Caterpillar

Small larva, big ant allies

Bass

Bass: many lineages, one big name

Nut Weevil

Snouts that drill, larvae that dine

Eared Grebe

Golden ears, black neck, master diver

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.

Goral

Built for cliffs, not flatlands

Decorator Crab

Wear the reef. Fool the predator.

Trapdoor spider

Hidden door, lightning strike.

Sehuencas Water Frog

Bolivia's stream sentinel

Stoplight Loosejaw

The deep sea's red-light hunter