Angled Sunbeam Caterpillar
Small larva, big ant allies
Mating Social Behaviors
Solitary
Individuals live alone except during mating encounters, with no lasting social bonds
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Leichhardt's Grasshopper
Northern Australia's warning-coloured hopper
Fritillary Butterfly
Four legs, endless wing stories
Saturniidae Moth
Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.
Goral
Built for cliffs, not flatlands
Decorator Crab
Wear the reef. Fool the predator.
Jamaican Iguana
Jamaica's "Lazarus" Rock Iguana
Trapdoor spider
Hidden door, lightning strike.
Stoplight Loosejaw
The deep sea's red-light hunter
Javan Leopard
Java's hidden rosettes in the mist
Ostracod
Tiny shells, huge history
Knifefish
Life in South America, powered by volts
Dimetrodon
Permian sailback-before dinosaurs
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
Largest skies, long-necked hunter
Purussaurus
Miocene mega-caiman of South America
Allosaurus
Jurassic hunter of the Morrison
Wiwaxia
Spiny armor from the Cambrian seafloor
Barylambda
Heavyweight of the Paleocene
Dunkleosteus
Armor-plated apex of Devonian seas
Hatzegopteryx
Hateg's giant sky-stalker
Helicoprion
Permian seas' spiral-toothed slicer
Crayfish
Claws that shape freshwater worlds
Giant Siphonophore
Many bodies, one predator.
Sequined Spider
Nature's tiny living disco ball