Carnivore

Golden Eagle

Gold-naped master of open skies

Short-Eared Owl

Twilight hunter of the open plains

Egret

Wetland hunters in white

Jabiru

Big bill. Big bird. Big wetlands.

Xeme (Sabine's Gull)

Arctic elegance, ocean wanderer

Opabinia

Five eyes, one weird proboscis

Xiaotingia

A near-bird from Jurassic Liaoning

Xenotarsosaurus

Patagonia's "strange-ankled" hunter

Meganeura

Carboniferous skies, colossal wings.

Ichthyostega

Half fish, half pioneer tetrapod

Seymouria

A near-amniote on Permian shores

Deinosuchus

Armor-plated giant of Cretaceous waterways

Margay

The cat that climbs like a monkey

Eurasian Eagle-owl

Booming monarch of the night cliffs

Kowari

Black-banded tail, desert hunter

Knight Anole

Cuba's bold, tree-top "knight" lizard

Tiger snake

Southern wetlands' striped heavyweight

Eastern Tiger Snake

Wetland hunter with a tiger's bite

Brown Tree Snake

Night-climber that changed Guam's forests

Tasmanian Tiger Snake

Banded, black, and built for wetlands

Curly Hair Tarantula

Curly, calm, and quietly formidable

Zebra Tarantula

Zebra legs, burrow boss

Skeleton Tarantula

The tarantula with "armed" pedipalps

Arizona Blonde Tarantula

Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant