Brown

Savannah Monitor

West Africa's clawed ground-forager

Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant

Big crest. Tiny flycatcher.

Pig-Nosed Turtle

Sea-turtle flippers, river-turtle soul

Pacific Spaghetti Eel

The eel that lives like a worm

Spotted Garden Eel

The plankton-picker of the sand flats

Scottish Fold Cat

Folded ears, big heart-bred with care

Comb Jellyfish

Eight comb rows, endless glow

Nematode

Roundworms: small bodies, huge impact

Kouprey

Kouprey: the vanishing forest ox

Tarantula

Big spiders, quiet ambush masters

Leafcutter Ant

Farmers of the forest floor

Underwing Moth

Beautiful underneath, invisible on bark

Giant Wood Moth

Big moth, long childhood in wood

Uromastyx (Spiny-Tailed Lizard)

Spiny tails, desert scales, plant power.

Zokor

Engineers of the Asian underworld

Khapra Beetle

Tiny beetle, massive quarantine threat.

Mollusk

One phylum, endless forms

Hartebeest

Built for the long run on the plains

Inchworm

Loop, look like a twig, and live on leaves

Owlfly (Ascalaphidae)

Big eyes. Clubbed antennae. Pure predator.

Gourami

Gulp air, build nests, rule the shallows

Yabby

Burrow. Endure. Thrive.

Olympic Marmot

Olympic Mountains' whistling burrower

Pacific Coast Tick

Ornate hunter of the Pacific slopes