Sandy

Buffalo Fish

Big bodies, subtle mouths, ancient lives

Pictus Catfish

Spots, speed, and super-long whiskers

Dobsonfly

Big jaws, clean streams, short adult lives

Belted Kingfisher

Bank-burrower. Perch-watcher. Plunge-diver.

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

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Holy Cross Frog

The desert frog with a cross on its back

Palaeophis

Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Paleoparadoxia

The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"

Flathead Catfish

The mottled, flat-headed night hunter

Scallops

The clapping swimmers of the seafloor

Chiton

Eight plates. One unstoppable grip.

Sand Dollar

Coins of the seafloor, built to burrow

White Catfish

Fork-tailed forager of tidal waters

Snowflake Eel

Spotted night hunter of the reef cracks

American Eel

Born at sea, raised in rivers.

Atlantic Sturgeon

Armored river giant of the Atlantic

Mullet Fish

Coastal recyclers in fast-moving schools