Temperate Forest

Arizona Blonde Tarantula

Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant

Brazilian Black Tarantula

The Velvet Black Burrower

California Tarantula

Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California

Orchard Oriole

Smallest oriole, biggest spring song

Acadian Flycatcher

Hear it: "peet-sah" in the shade

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

The woodland sprinter with a long tail

Kea

The clever parrot of the snowline

Purple Gallinule

The lily-pad walker of the wetlands

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

European Goldfinch

Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.

Epicyon haydeni

Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid

Argentavis Magnificens

Miocene sky-giant of Argentina

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Supersaurus

Jurassic length, Morrison legend

Shantungosaurus

Shandong's colossal duck-bill grazer

Puertasaurus

Patagonia's giant, known from fragments

Amphicoelias Fragillimus

The lost giant of the Morrison

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Ceratopsian

Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver

Dickcissel

Prairie singer, South America traveler

Veery

Spiral song, epic migration.