Mediterranean

Egyptian Tortoise

Small shell, big desert survivor

Welsh Black Cattle

Built for Welsh hills, bred for beef

Tiger snake

Southern wetlands' striped heavyweight

Eastern Tiger Snake

Wetland hunter with a tiger's bite

Senepol Cattle

Slick-coated taurine built for the tropics

Nguni Cattle

Built for the rangeland, born in color

English Longhorn Cattle

Forward horns, old Britain's beef

Nelore Cattle

Built for the tropics, born to thrive

Lineback Cattle

The stripe that stands out.

Chilean Rose Tarantula

Chile's "rose" with a hidden defense

California Tarantula

Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

The woodland sprinter with a long tail

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Gadwall

The "quiet" duck with a bright wing flash

Western Kingbird

Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line

Hammond's flycatcher

Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox

Ruddy Duck

Small duck, big tail attitude

Northern Pintail

Pointed tail, planet-spanning migrant

Panthera atrox (American Lion)

North America's Ice Age lion

Diprotodon

Pleistocene giant of Australia