Brown

Waterbuck

Ringed rump, river-edge ruler

Bass

Bass: many lineages, one big name

Smooth Hammerhead Shark

Smooth head, sharp hunter.

Nut Weevil

Snouts that drill, larvae that dine

Lace Bug

Lacy wings, leafy feasts.

Eared Grebe

Golden ears, black neck, master diver

Horned Grebe

Golden horns, master of the dive

Fritillary Butterfly

Four legs, endless wing stories

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.

Pied-Billed Grebe

Thick-billed master of the marsh

Goral

Built for cliffs, not flatlands

Bhutan Takin

Bhutan's Roman-nosed mountain bovid

Decorator Crab

Wear the reef. Fool the predator.

Jamaican Iguana

Jamaica's "Lazarus" Rock Iguana

Trapdoor spider

Hidden door, lightning strike.

Sehuencas Water Frog

Bolivia's stream sentinel

Limpet

Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.

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

Ornithocheirus

Bird-hand ruler of Cretaceous skies