Solitary

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.

Pied-Billed Grebe

Thick-billed master of the marsh

Goral

Built for cliffs, not flatlands

Bhutan Takin

Bhutan's Roman-nosed mountain bovid

Decorator Crab

Wear the reef. Fool the predator.

Jamaican Iguana

Jamaica's "Lazarus" Rock Iguana

Trapdoor spider

Hidden door, lightning strike.

Sehuencas Water Frog

Bolivia's stream sentinel

Stoplight Loosejaw

The deep sea's red-light hunter

Javan Leopard

Java's hidden rosettes in the mist

Ocean Whitefish

A tilefish by blood, a whitefish by name

Limpet

Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.

Ostracod

Tiny shells, huge history

Kaua'i ‘Ō‘ō

The vanished voice of Kauai

Knifefish

Life in South America, powered by volts

Kaluga Sturgeon

Giant hunter of the Amur

Dimetrodon

Permian sailback-before dinosaurs

Eryops

Permian powerhouse of the ponds

Haikouichthys

A tiny fossil at vertebrates' dawn

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

Largest skies, long-necked hunter

Ornithocheirus

Bird-hand ruler of Cretaceous skies

Purussaurus

Miocene mega-caiman of South America

Allosaurus

Jurassic hunter of the Morrison

Lystrosaurus

The beaked survivor of Earth's worst crisis