Family Group

Belted Kingfisher

Bank-burrower. Perch-watcher. Plunge-diver.

Vermilion Flycatcher

A spark of red on the riverbank

Tufted Titmouse

Crested whistler of eastern woods

Boxachi

Big-dog heart, small-dog spark

African Golden Cat

The rainforest's hidden cat of many colors

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Arsinoitherium

Rhino looks, afrotherian roots

Coryphodon

Big browser of the Eocene wetlands

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Giant Beaver

Ice Age beaver, supersized.

Doedicurus

Ice Age armadillo with a mace tail

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Archaeoindris

Madagascar's lost giant sloth lemur

Josephoartigasia monesi

Uruguay's titan rodent

Toxodon

The Pampas' hippo-like grazer

Paleoparadoxia

The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"

White Catfish

Fork-tailed forager of tidal waters

Tailless Whip Scorpion

Feelers first. Pincers ready.

Partridge

Small birds, big survival skills.

Spider Beetle

Spider look, beetle build-ptinids!

Darkling Beetle

Masters of the dry and the dark

Scarab Beetle

Fan antennas, mighty diggers, big jobs

Water Beetle

Coleoptera's freshwater engineers

Bark Beetle

Under-bark engineers of the forest