Tan

Sidewinder

Sidewind the sand. Rattle the warning.

Red Racer Snake

Fast, fearless, and nonvenomous

Coastal Taipan

Fast hunter. Serious venom.

Smooth Snake

Smooth scales. Silent hunter.

Taipan

Fast hunters, potent venom, wide deserts

Checkered Garter Snake

Checkerboard swimmer of the Southwest

False Cobra

All hood, no cobra

Hawk Moth Caterpillar

Hornworms: big bites, bold disguises

Inland Taipan

Arid Australia's elusive venom specialist

Atlas Moth

Big wings. No meals. Just mating.

Apple Moth

Tiny leafroller, huge orchard impact

Madora Moth

Hairy larvae, hardy cocoons.

Hercules Moth

Big wings. Bigger legend.

Clothes Moth

Keratin recyclers-sometimes in your closet

European Corn Borer

Small moth, big tunnels, big losses

Plains Hognose Snake

All bluff, no bite.

Central Ranges Taipan

The desert taipan few ever see

Equatorial Spitting Cobra

"Don't blink-this cobra can spit."

Philippine Cobra

Look, don't stare-spitting cobra!

Cobras

Hood up: the true cobras

Ornithomimus

Ostrich build, dinosaur soul

Maiasaura

The "good mother" duck-bill

Uintatherium

Knobs, canines, and Eocene power

Procoptodon

Pleistocene's powerhouse kangaroos