Chigger
Six legs now, eight legs later
Conservation Threats
Climate Change
Global warming effects including temperature shifts, sea level rise, and extreme weather events
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Climate Change Animals
Cosmic Caterpillar
The moth that sips through fruit skins
Cormorant
Dive deep. Hunt sleek. Dry proud.
Treehopper
Helmets on, vibrations on.
Agkistrodon Contortrix
Hourglass bands. Hidden hunter.
Savannah Monitor
West Africa's clawed ground-forager
Tangerine Leopard Gecko
Orange glow, true eyelids, big personality
Scale-Crested Pygmy Tyrant
Big crest. Tiny flycatcher.
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
Comb Jellyfish
Eight comb rows, endless glow
Nematode
Roundworms: small bodies, huge impact
Tarantula
Big spiders, quiet ambush masters
Leafcutter Ant
Farmers of the forest floor
Underwing Moth
Beautiful underneath, invisible on bark
Keyhole Cichlid
Small cichlid, big-family devotion
Giant Wood Moth
Big moth, long childhood in wood
Uromastyx (Spiny-Tailed Lizard)
Spiny tails, desert scales, plant power.
Zokor
Engineers of the Asian underworld
Uaru Cichlid
Amazon's gentle giant with a triangle badge
Xingu River Ray
Rio Xingu's Black Diamond Stingray
Yellowjacket (Yellow Jacket)
Paper nests, sharp teamwork, bold stripes
Khapra Beetle
Tiny beetle, massive quarantine threat.