Sandy

Kowari

Black-banded tail, desert hunter

Texas Brown Tarantula

Big, brown, and mostly mellow.

Arizona Blonde Tarantula

Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant

Orange Baboon Tarantula

Orange Baboon Tarantula: Web. Dash. Defend.

Chilean Rose Tarantula

Chile's "rose" with a hidden defense

California Tarantula

Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California

Green Bottle Blue Tarantula

Desert jewel, webbing machine

Eider

Downy divers of the far north

Emperor Goose

White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge

King Eider

Crown of the Arctic pack ice

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunner

The sprinting cuckoo of the desert

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

Arambourgiania

A sky-giant with a giraffe-long neck

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Albertonectes

Alberta's long-necked sea swimmer

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver

Gadwall

The "quiet" duck with a bright wing flash

Snow Goose

Two morphs, one Arctic traveler

Northern Pintail

Pointed tail, planet-spanning migrant

Diprotodon

Pleistocene giant of Australia

Shastasaurus

Triassic titan of the open sea

Icadyptes

Eocene giant of Peru's seas

Elephant Bird

Madagascar's lost giants of the egg