Congregation

Eurasian Collared Dove

The collar-marked urban colonizer

Eastern Box Turtle

Nature's little hinged "lockbox"

Tiger snake

Southern wetlands' striped heavyweight

Eastern Tiger Snake

Wetland hunter with a tiger's bite

Rough-Legged Hawk

The feather-legged hover-hunter

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Mole Crab (Sand Flea)

Burrow fast. Filter the surf.

Nut Weevil

Snouts that drill, larvae that dine

Fritillary Butterfly

Four legs, endless wing stories

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.

Limpet

Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.

Eryops

Permian powerhouse of the ponds

Purussaurus

Miocene mega-caiman of South America

Lystrosaurus

The beaked survivor of Earth's worst crisis

Wiwaxia

Spiny armor from the Cambrian seafloor

Crayfish

Claws that shape freshwater worlds

Feather Star

Feathery arms, drifting meals

Oregon Spotted Frog

Warm-shallow wetland specialist of the PNW

Owl Butterfly

Big wings. Bold eyes. Dusk flyers.

Emperor Angelfish

Reef royalty in stripes and rings

Kudzu Bug

Small bug, big swarms-beware kudzu's hitchhiker.

Ornate Box Turtle

Prairie jewel that shuts like a box

Ulysses Butterfly

Electric blue over rainforest edges

Cosmic Caterpillar

The moth that sips through fruit skins