Muddy

Common Yellowthroat

Masked singer of the marsh edge

Asian Water Monitor

The canal-cruising giant of Asia

De Brazza's Monkey

The bearded guenon of river forests

Hairy Frogfish

Hairy master of disguise-hook, lure, gulp

Bass

Bass: many lineages, one big name

Eared Grebe

Golden ears, black neck, master diver

Fritillary Butterfly

Four legs, endless wing stories

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.

Pied-Billed Grebe

Thick-billed master of the marsh

Decorator Crab

Wear the reef. Fool the predator.

Trapdoor spider

Hidden door, lightning strike.

Ocean Whitefish

A tilefish by blood, a whitefish by name

Limpet

Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.

Ostracod

Tiny shells, huge history

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

Deinocheirus

The terrible-handed wetland omnivore

Haikouichthys

A tiny fossil at vertebrates' dawn

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