Clearnose Skate
See-through snout, seafloor scout
Conservation Threats
Overfishing
Unsustainable fishing practices depleting marine and freshwater species
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Overfishing Animals
Mudskipper
Fish that mastered the mud
White Sturgeon
Ancient armored giant of the Pacific rivers
Giant Trevally
The Indo-Pacific's powerhouse jack
Atlantic Cod
The barbel-chinned backbone of the Atlantic
Orange Roughy
Seamount elder of the deep
King Salmon
Biggest Pacific salmon, epic river run.
Urechis unicinctus (Penis Fish)
The mudflat innkeeper with a mucus net
Swordfish
One sword. Whole oceans to roam.
Perch Fish
Spines up-freshwater's sharp hunters
Stonefish
Looks like a rock. Hits like a needle.
Bigfin Reef Squid
Big fins. Bright signals. Reef-speed life.
Lancetfish
Sail-fin hunters of the midwater
Nautilus
Ancient shell, living navigator.
Horse Mackerel
Rough-sided sprinters of the sea
Osprey
Nature's plunge-diving fish hawk
Egret
Wetland hunters in white
Herring Gull
Coastline's clever scavenger
Xeme (Sabine's Gull)
Arctic elegance, ocean wanderer
Sandpiper
Built for mudflats and megamigrations
Eider
Downy divers of the far north
King Eider
Crown of the Arctic pack ice
Epicyon haydeni
Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid
Common Goldeneye
Hear the whistler, spot the gold eye