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Equatorial Spitting Cobra

"Don't blink-this cobra can spit."

Paradise Flying Snake

The snake that turns ribs into wings

Western Green Mamba

Green lightning in the West African trees

Green Snake

The vine-colored insect hunter

Cobras

Hood up: the true cobras

Archaeotherium

Big jaws, Oligocene badlands boss

Amethystine Python (Scrub Python)

Island giant with an amethyst glow

Boelen's python

Velvet-black python of the highlands

Indian python

India's river-edge giant constrictor

Timor python

The Lesser Sundas' slender constrictor

Reticulated python

The net-patterned giant constrictor

Bismarck Ringed Python

Ringed hunter of the Bismarck forests

Hooded Oriole

Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher

Tail-flicking, gnat-grabbing dynamo

Canada Warbler

The necklace warbler of the boreal

Daeodon

Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.

Troodon

Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky

Gargoyle Gecko

Horned head, forest-night hunter

Python

Big squeeze, bigger diversity.

Red-Footed Tortoise

Red feet, rainforest traveler.

Achrioptera Manga

Madagascar's master of mimicry

Green Aphids

Tiny sapsuckers, huge plant impact

Woolly Aphids

Tiny bugs, big cottony colonies

Hovasaurus

Madagascar's Triassic water-runner