Mediterranean

Diamondback Moth

Tiny moth, massive cabbage menace

Madora Moth

Hairy larvae, hardy cocoons.

Oleander Hawk Moth

The leaf that flies at dusk

Winter Moth

Winter flyer, spring defoliator

Cactus Moth

The moth that eats prickly pears

Clothes Moth

Keratin recyclers-sometimes in your closet

Codling Moth

The copper-patched "worm in the apple"

Tomato Hornworm

From tomato terror to night-flying pollinator

European Corn Borer

Small moth, big tunnels, big losses

Yellow Cobra

Bright hood, potent neurotoxin

California Kingsnake

The striped hunter of the West

San Francisco Garter Snake

Peninsula wetlands' living ribbon

Cobras

Hood up: the true cobras

Ring-billed Gull

Spot the black ring, know the gull

Procoptodon

Pleistocene's powerhouse kangaroos

Sauropoda

Long necks, bigger worlds

Grey Heron

Still as stone, fast as a spear

Night Heron

Night hunter with a black-crowned cap

Dire Wolf

The Pleistocene's powerhouse wolf

Killdeer

The plover that out-acts predators

Thylacoleo

Australia's blade-toothed marsupial lion

Hooded Oriole

Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest

Arctotherium

Short-faced giants of Ice Age South America

Terror Bird

Run fast. Strike hard. Terror bird.