Temperate Forest

Gastornis

Eocene giant with a powerhouse beak

Thylacosmilus

The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat

Andrewsarchus

Big skull, bigger mystery

Embolotherium

Asia's Eocene battering-ram giant

Dinocrocuta

Not a hyena-just built like one.

Equus giganteus

Big horse of Ice-Age America

Irish Elk

The deer with antlers like doorways

MacGillivray's Warbler

The Spectacled Singer of the Thickets

Kentucky Warbler

Masked jewel of the forest floor

Common Yellowthroat

Masked singer of the marsh edge

Mourning Warbler

Hooded shadow of the thickets

Kermode Bear (Spirit Bear)

Not polar-coastal spirit of the rainforest

Black Dragon Lizard

All the beardie charm-dressed in black.

Lace Monitor

Lace-patterned climber of Australia's east

Axanthic Ball Python

All the pattern-none of the yellow

Hammerhead Worm

Hammerhead hunters of the soil

Angled Sunbeam Caterpillar

Small larva, big ant allies

Bass

Bass: many lineages, one big name

Nut Weevil

Snouts that drill, larvae that dine

Lace Bug

Lacy wings, leafy feasts.

Clark's Grebe

White face, yellow bill-lake sprinter

Horned Grebe

Golden horns, master of the dive

Fritillary Butterfly

Four legs, endless wing stories

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.