Gray

Blue Catfish

Forked tail. Big river muscle.

Black-Capped Chickadee

Big attitude in a tiny winter bird

Whiting

European whiting: NE Atlantic cod kin

Cat-Eyed Snake

Night eyes, frog hunters

Rhombic Egg-Eater Snake

Cracks eggs-never bites.

Wolf Snake

Gecko hunters, not kraits

Yarara

Lanceheads: silent heat-seeking ambushers

Rinkhals Snake

Spit. Bluff. Survive.

Night Adder

Rhombus-marked frog hunter of the night

Mole Snake

Big bite, no venom-rodent remover

Snook Fish

Linesiders of the tides

Mojarra

Silver schools, sand-sipping snouts

Surgeonfish

Scalpels on the tail, gardeners of reefs

Cecropia Moth

Biggest native moth, built for one mission

Electric Catfish

Africa's freshwater "shock" catfish

Mola mola (Ocean Sunfish)

Clavus, not tail: the ocean's odd giant

Black Rat Snake

Barn-climbing rodent patrol

Stargazer Fish

Eyes up. Mouth up. Strike up.

Conger Eel

Night hunters of the seafloor

Red-Lipped Batfish

Walks the seafloor. Fishes with a lure.

Goonch Catfish

Built for rapids, born to ambush

Rainbow Shark

All the attitude, none of the shark.

Goliath Tigerfish

Teeth like knives, built for rapids

Sculpin

Masters of the bottom's disguise