Emperor Angelfish
Reef royalty in stripes and rings
Conservation Threats
Habitat Loss
Destruction or degradation of natural environments through development, deforestation, or land conversion
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Habitat Loss Animals
Oribi
The grassland ghost on tiptoe
Kelp Greenling
Kelp forests' colorful egg-guarder
Kiang
Tough hooves for the Roof of the World
Vole
Small rodents, big ecosystem impact
Ornate Box Turtle
Prairie jewel that shuts like a box
Ulysses Butterfly
Electric blue over rainforest edges
Urial
Horns of the high dry hills
Chigger
Six legs now, eight legs later
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
Kouprey
Kouprey: the vanishing forest ox
Tarantula
Big spiders, quiet ambush masters
Leafcutter Ant
Farmers of the forest floor