Temperate Forest

Tufted Titmouse

Crested whistler of eastern woods

Boxachi

Big-dog heart, small-dog spark

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Meiolania

Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.

Eastern Dobsonfly

Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.

Coryphodon

Big browser of the Eocene wetlands

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Anteosaurus

Karoo's pre-dinosaur apex hunter

Giant Beaver

Ice Age beaver, supersized.

Palaeophis

Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae

Macrauchenia

South America's long-necked mystery mammal

Dinopithecus

The giant baboon of ancient Africa

Doedicurus

Ice Age armadillo with a mace tail

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Banana Cinnamon Ball Python

Caramel coils, calm soul.

Josephoartigasia monesi

Uruguay's titan rodent

Toxodon

The Pampas' hippo-like grazer

Oranda Goldfish

Wen-tastic elegance in motion

Red Paper Wasp

Open-comb builders of the Carolinas

American Eel

Born at sea, raised in rivers.

Tailless Whip Scorpion

Feelers first. Pincers ready.

Oriental Cockroach

The basement-dwelling "black beetle"

Mullet Fish

Coastal recyclers in fast-moving schools

Brook Trout

Vermiculations in the cold current