Temperate Grassland

European Corn Borer

Small moth, big tunnels, big losses

Yellow Cobra

Bright hood, potent neurotoxin

Texas Garter Snake

Striped hunter of Texas watersides

Speckled Kingsnake

Speckles, strength, and snake-eating swagger

Plains Hognose Snake

All bluff, no bite.

California Kingsnake

The striped hunter of the West

Central Ranges Taipan

The desert taipan few ever see

Blue Racer

Blue flash of the prairie

San Francisco Garter Snake

Peninsula wetlands' living ribbon

False Water Cobra

Hoods like a cobra, lives like an otter

Desert Kingsnake

Desert's snake-eating "king"

Green Snake

The vine-colored insect hunter

Cobras

Hood up: the true cobras

Ring-billed Gull

Spot the black ring, know the gull

Ornithomimus

Ostrich build, dinosaur soul

Maiasaura

The "good mother" duck-bill

Woolly Rhinoceros

Shaggy titan of the mammoth steppe

Procoptodon

Pleistocene's powerhouse kangaroos

Sauropoda

Long necks, bigger worlds

Archaeotherium

Big jaws, Oligocene badlands boss

Dire Wolf

The Pleistocene's powerhouse wolf

Oviraptor

The Gobi's brooding beaked theropod

Arctodus

Pleistocene's long-legged giant bear

Killdeer

The plover that out-acts predators