Elephant Fish
Probe the seafloor, chimaera-style
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Natural System Modification Animals
Killifish
Small fish, big survival strategies
Eagle Ray
Wings that crack shells
Oribi
The grassland ghost on tiptoe
Kelp Greenling
Kelp forests' colorful egg-guarder
Kudzu Bug
Small bug, big swarms-beware kudzu's hitchhiker.
Vole
Small rodents, big ecosystem impact
Ornate Box Turtle
Prairie jewel that shuts like a box
Orchid Dottyback
Small purple fish, big reef attitude
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.
Savannah Monitor
West Africa's clawed ground-forager
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
Nematode
Roundworms: small bodies, huge impact
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