Temperate Grassland

Bass

Bass: many lineages, one big name

Lace Bug

Lacy wings, leafy feasts.

Eared Grebe

Golden ears, black neck, master diver

Clark's Grebe

White face, yellow bill-lake sprinter

Fritillary Butterfly

Four legs, endless wing stories

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.

Pied-Billed Grebe

Thick-billed master of the marsh

Trapdoor spider

Hidden door, lightning strike.

Ostracod

Tiny shells, huge history

Africanized bee (killer bee)

Same species-different attitude.

Knifefish

Life in South America, powered by volts

Dimetrodon

Permian sailback-before dinosaurs

Eryops

Permian powerhouse of the ponds

Deinocheirus

The terrible-handed wetland omnivore

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

Largest skies, long-necked hunter

Allosaurus

Jurassic hunter of the Morrison

Lystrosaurus

The beaked survivor of Earth's worst crisis

Scutosaurus

Permian armor, plant-powered

Palaeoloxodon namadicus

The giant straight-tusked titan of Ice-Age India

Hatzegopteryx

Hateg's giant sky-stalker

Teddy Guinea Pig

Plush coat, big squeaks, gentle charm.

Abyssinian Guinea Pig

Spikes, rosettes, and big personality

English Crested Guinea Pig

One crest. One color. Pure charm.

Peruvian Guinea Pig

The runway model of guinea pigs