Sandy

Helicoprion

Permian seas' spiral-toothed slicer

Xiphactinus

Not a dinosaur-Cretaceous sea predator

Feather Star

Feathery arms, drifting meals

Opaleye (Rudderfish)

The kelp-forest fish with an opal eye

Snailfish

Snailfishes: clingers of the cold deep

Orinoco Crocodile

Orinoco's long-snouted river giant

Onager

Iran's lightning-footed onager

Kissing Bugs

Night feeder, public-health sentinel

Ember Tetra

A living ember for nano tanks

Elephant Fish

Probe the seafloor, chimaera-style

Killifish

Small fish, big survival strategies

Rainbow Kribs (Kribensis)

Small cichlid, big rainbow attitude

Eagle Ray

Wings that crack shells

Emperor Angelfish

Reef royalty in stripes and rings

Kelp Greenling

Kelp forests' colorful egg-guarder

Vole

Small rodents, big ecosystem impact

Ornate Box Turtle

Prairie jewel that shuts like a box

Chigger

Six legs now, eight legs later

Cormorant

Dive deep. Hunt sleek. Dry proud.

Savannah Monitor

West Africa's clawed ground-forager

Tangerine Leopard Gecko

Orange glow, true eyelids, big personality

Pig-Nosed Turtle

Sea-turtle flippers, river-turtle soul

Pacific Spaghetti Eel

The eel that lives like a worm

Spotted Garden Eel

The plankton-picker of the sand flats