Firefly
Living lanterns with coded light
Mating Social Behaviors
Transient
Brief encounters for mating with no lasting association between individuals
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Transient Animals
Tick
Small bite, big impact
Squash Beetle
A lady beetle with a taste for squash
Eastern Rat Snake
Barn-Patrolling, Tree-Climbing Black Snake
Sambar
Asia's heavyweight forest deer
Deer Tick
Small tick, big impact.
Wood Tick
Small tick, big consequences.
Nudibranch
Nature's neon, toxin-borrowing sea slugs
Wels Catfish
The whiskered giant of Eurasian rivers
Jonah Crab
Big claws, Gulf of Maine flavor.
Dunnock
Hedgerow accentor, not a sparrow
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Leathery shell, ocean-spanning traveler
Pipefish
Tube snouts. Bony armor. Dad does the brooding.
Snow Crab
Built for the seafloor's deep freeze
Eastern Racer
Sleek, swift, and totally harmless
Racer Snake
See it. Sprint. Survive.
Wax Moth
Waxworm: the comb's silent tunneler
Indianmeal Moth
See the webbing, stop the pantry moth.
Diamondback Moth
Tiny moth, massive cabbage menace
Procoptodon
Pleistocene's powerhouse kangaroos
Sinosauropteryx
Jehol's fuzzy little predator
Basilosaurus
The long-bodied king of Eocene seas
Microraptor
Four wings, one big flight story
Ichthyosaurus
Fish-lizard, built for speed