Marine

Arctic Char

Built for ice-cold waters

Sea Snake

Elapids that learned to breathe the sea

Sheepshead Fish

Built to bite shells off the dock

American Paddlefish

Paddle-snouted plankton hunter

Giant Isopod

The deep sea's armored scavenger

Dragon Eel

Spots, horns, and fangs after dark

Belted Kingfisher

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

Thresher Shark

The shark that hunts with a whip

Common Angelshark

Ray-shaped, shark-built, seabed hunter

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

White-tipped wings of the high seas

Lemon Shark

Twin dorsal fins, coastal king

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Meiolania

Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.

Hainosaurus

Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas

Palaeophis

Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Paleoparadoxia

The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"

Scallops

The clapping swimmers of the seafloor

Chiton

Eight plates. One unstoppable grip.

Sand Dollar

Coins of the seafloor, built to burrow

White Catfish

Fork-tailed forager of tidal waters

Snowflake Eel

Spotted night hunter of the reef cracks

American Eel

Born at sea, raised in rivers.

Atlantic Sturgeon

Armored river giant of the Atlantic