Rocky

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

Rough-Legged Hawk

The feather-legged hover-hunter

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Hammond's flycatcher

Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox

Panthera atrox (American Lion)

North America's Ice Age lion

Thylacoleo carnifex

Australia's "lion" with a marsupial bite

Shastasaurus

Triassic titan of the open sea

Icadyptes

Eocene giant of Peru's seas

Dinocrocuta

Not a hyena-just built like one.

Ackie Monitor

Small goanna, spiny-tail swagger.

Red Ackie Monitor

Small goanna, big attitude-spiny tail!

Black Dragon Lizard

All the beardie charm-dressed in black.

Lace Monitor

Lace-patterned climber of Australia's east

Black Throat Monitor

Dark throat. Big brain. Savanna hunter.

Hammerhead Worm

Hammerhead hunters of the soil

Hairy Frogfish

Hairy master of disguise-hook, lure, gulp

Oilfish

Deep-water predator with a waxy secret

Bearded Fireworm

Look, don't touch-the reef's fire-beard

Capuchin

Small hands, big brains.

Bass

Bass: many lineages, one big name

Fritillary Butterfly

Four legs, endless wing stories

Saturniidae Moth

Big wings, brief lives, brilliant cocoons.