Carnivore
Diet centered on other animals, from insects and krill to large prey, caught with teeth, beaks, talons or tongues.
Spotted Hyena
Bone-crushing jaws, matriarchal clan rule, and a whoop that carries for miles.
Star-Nosed Mole
A semi-aquatic mole armed with twenty-two fleshy sensory tentacles that can identify and eat a piece of prey in as little as 120 milliseconds.
Stoat
Takes on rabbits more than five times its size, dances in a way that seems to hypnotise them, and can turn snow-white in winter.
Striated Frogfish
The lure-twitching frogfish whose surprise attack pulls in prey within six milliseconds as its mouth expands up to twelve times.
Striped Hyena
A raised mane that makes it look nearly twice its size, jaws built to crush bone, and a scavenger's range from northern Africa to India.
Swordfish
A fish with a heater for its brain and a flattened bill it apparently uses to slash prey.
Tawny Owl
Broad rounded wings, lopsided ears, and a 'too-whit-too-woo' that takes two birds to make.
Thorny Seahorse
A seahorse with extremely sharp spines, a crown on its head and fathers that carry the babies.
Timber Rattlesnake
The big eastern pit viper that senses heat, waits in ambush and rattles a warning first.
Vaquita
A shy porpoise with the smallest range of any whale, dolphin or porpoise
Wandering Albatross
Perhaps the longest wingspan of any bird, and in a year off from breeding some circle Antarctica twice or even three times.
Wels Catfish
Europe's largest freshwater fish, and on one French river, a hunter that beaches itself to grab pigeons off a gravel island.
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
A desert pit viper with a heat-sensing pit on each side of its head. In one study, fasting snakes lost 30% of their body mass over 168 days.
Western Grebe
Tied with Clark's grebe as the largest animal known to run on water, sprinting across a lake in a courtship display called rushing.
Wood Frog
A frog that can let ice fill over a third of its body each winter, stop its own heart, and thaw out alive again each spring.