Walking

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

Javan Leopard

Java's hidden rosettes in the mist

Amano Shrimp

Algae patrol with a secret sea stage

Africanized bee (killer bee)

Same species-different attitude.

Kaua'i ‘Ō‘ō

The vanished voice of Kauai

Dimetrodon

Permian sailback-before dinosaurs

Eryops

Permian powerhouse of the ponds

Deinocheirus

The terrible-handed wetland omnivore

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

Largest skies, long-necked hunter

Ornithocheirus

Bird-hand ruler of Cretaceous skies

Purussaurus

Miocene mega-caiman of South America

Allosaurus

Jurassic hunter of the Morrison

Lystrosaurus

The beaked survivor of Earth's worst crisis

Vegavis

A polar clue to waterfowl origins

Scutosaurus

Permian armor, plant-powered