Congregation

Smooth Earth Snake

Smooth scales, secret life in leaf litter

Beewolf wasp

Nectar sippers, bee hunters.

Box Jellyfish

Square bell, sharp vision, serious sting

Tree Cricket

Leaf-perched musicians of the night

Quahog Clam

Quahog: the buried filter-feeder

Grunion

Moon-timed fish that spawn on sand

Admiral Butterfly

Red bands. White tips. Power flight.

White Sturgeon

Ancient armored giant of the Pacific rivers

Atlantic Cod

The barbel-chinned backbone of the Atlantic

Arthropleura

Carboniferous colossus on many legs

Swainson's Hawk

The grasshopper hawk that goes global

Short-Eared Owl

Twilight hunter of the open plains

Sarus Crane

Tallest flyer, truest partner

Osprey

Nature's plunge-diving fish hawk

Jabiru

Big bill. Big bird. Big wetlands.

Egyptian Vulture

Small vulture, big cleanup crew

Meganeura

Carboniferous skies, colossal wings.

Seymouria

A near-amniote on Permian shores

Deinosuchus

Armor-plated giant of Cretaceous waterways

Sandpiper

Built for mudflats and megamigrations

Australian Firehawk

Smoke-follower of the savannas

Eurasian Collared Dove

The collar-marked urban colonizer

Eastern Box Turtle

Nature's little hinged "lockbox"

Tiger snake

Southern wetlands' striped heavyweight