Island

Philippine Cobra

Look, don't stare-spitting cobra!

Paradise Flying Snake

The snake that turns ribs into wings

Malayan Krait

Night-banded, nerve-silencing hunter

Chinese Cobra

Hood up, hold back-Southern China's cobra

Cobras

Hood up: the true cobras

Ring-billed Gull

Spot the black ring, know the gull

Green Heron

Small heron, big brains at the edge

Grey Heron

Still as stone, fast as a spear

Night Heron

Night hunter with a black-crowned cap

Killdeer

The plover that out-acts predators

Amethystine Python (Scrub Python)

Island giant with an amethyst glow

Savu Python

Reticulated: the island-spanning giant

Indian python

India's river-edge giant constrictor

Timor python

The Lesser Sundas' slender constrictor

Reticulated python

The net-patterned giant constrictor

Bismarck Ringed Python

Ringed hunter of the Bismarck forests

Krait

Silent stripes, serious venom.

Compsognathus

Small body, sharp bite, Jurassic sprint

Plesiosaur

Four flippers, many lifestyles

Whimbrel

Curved bill, epic journeys

Pelagornis

Giants of the wind-swept seas

Gargoyle Gecko

Horned head, forest-night hunter

Python

Big squeeze, bigger diversity.

Red-Footed Tortoise

Red feet, rainforest traveler.