Coastal

Giant House Spider

Fast runner, funnel-web architect

Dobsonfly

Big jaws, clean streams, short adult lives

European Starling

Mimic, shimmer, and swarm the sky

Downy Woodpecker

Big woodpecker energy-mini size.

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

Thresher Shark

The shark that hunts with a whip

Common Angelshark

Ray-shaped, shark-built, seabed hunter

Lemon Shark

Twin dorsal fins, coastal king

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Meiolania

Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.

Arsinoitherium

Rhino looks, afrotherian roots

Hainosaurus

Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas

Eastern Dobsonfly

Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.

Coryphodon

Big browser of the Eocene wetlands

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Palaeophis

Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Lavender Albino Ball Python

Soft lavender, royal serpent

Josephoartigasia monesi

Uruguay's titan rodent

Toxodon

The Pampas' hippo-like grazer

Paleoparadoxia

The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"