Muddy

Cardinals

Bold bills, bright songs, New World

Chinese Water Deer

No antlers. All tusks.

Box Jellyfish

Square bell, sharp vision, serious sting

Pompano Fish

Silver speedster of the surf

Jack Crevalle

The bull-jack of the Atlantic

Ocean Perch

Deep, red, and built for the long haul

Quahog Clam

Quahog: the buried filter-feeder

Thornback Ray

Spines on top, hunter below

Clearnose Skate

See-through snout, seafloor scout

Mudskipper

Fish that mastered the mud

White Sturgeon

Ancient armored giant of the Pacific rivers

Giant Trevally

The Indo-Pacific's powerhouse jack

Atlantic Cod

The barbel-chinned backbone of the Atlantic

Dwarf Gourami

Tiny air-breather, big personality.

Urechis unicinctus (Penis Fish)

The mudflat innkeeper with a mucus net

Stonefish

Looks like a rock. Hits like a needle.

Bigfin Reef Squid

Big fins. Bright signals. Reef-speed life.

Naegleria

Warm water, wrong way-protect your nose

Horse Mackerel

Rough-sided sprinters of the sea

Katydid

Leaf-mimics with night-time songs

Xenoceratops

Alien horns from ancient Alberta

Xenacanthus

The head-spined hunters of Pangea

Cephalaspis

Head-shielded pioneer of vertebrates

Dinosaurs

One name, a million body plans