Predator
Active carnivorous hunter utilizing acute sensory tracking, stalking tactics, and lethal offensive weapons.
Amazonian Giant Centipede
Venomous, up to 30 cm long, and its big ones are known to climb cave ceilings and catch bats.
Antlion
Its larva jerks sand out of a pit with its head and, when hungry, sucks its prey very dry.
Army Ant
A colony of up to a million sisters that clings together as a living nest, then raids the forest floor as a fan-shaped army.
Asian Giant Hornet
The world's largest hornet, whose raiding parties can kill thousands of honeybees in a few hours.
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
A tuna up to 13 feet long that dives past 1,000 meters and keeps a warm body.
Atlantic Cod
A big bottom predator that lost an immune pathway jawed vertebrates normally keep.
Atlantic Halibut
The world's largest flatfish, and a fish that moves one of its eyes across its head.
Barramundi
A fish that mostly matures as a male and switches to female as it grows, on its way to a maximum length of 200 cm.
Black-Footed Cat
One of the world's smallest cats, with a hunting success rate of around 60 percent and an appetite for a fifth of its own body weight a day.
Bold Jumping Spider
A daytime stalker from a spider family whose forward-looking resolution beats every insect's, trailing a safety line of silk when it jumps.
Carolina Wolf Spider
A web-free night hunter that grinds up frogs and carries its babies on its back.
Common Wasp
A paper-nest builder whose workers police the colony by eating worker-laid eggs.
Eastern Brown Snake
Small fangs for an elapid its size, a modest average dose, and the second most toxic snake venom known.
Egyptian Giant Solpugid
A camel spider, which is not a spider at all, with jaws that chop its prey to pulp.
Emperor Dragonfly
A big dragonfly whose larva fires a hooked mouthpart at prey, too fast for a water flea to escape.
European Hornet
Central Europe's biggest vespine wasp, warmed by its own flight muscles.
European Polecat
A masked mustelid that releases a strong-smelling secretion when threatened, grips so tenaciously it can be lifted by whatever is in its teeth, and seems held back from northern Sweden by snow.
Ferret
A domesticated weasel relative that spends over 60% of its time asleep in the lab.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Bottom-walking cephalopod that sends color waves across its skin and flashes warning colors to advertise its venom.
Frilled Shark
A slow-swimming, six-gilled deep-sea shark whose lineage is estimated at 82 million years old and whose pregnancy may run three and a half years.
Geography Cone Snail
Reef hunter whose venom insulin, released into the water, appears to disorient schools of small fish before the snail engulfs them and harpoons them with a hollow venom tooth.
Ghost Bat
Australia's only carnivorous bat, a night hunter that eats even the bones, teeth and fur of its prey.
Giant Huntsman Spider
A spider found in caves in Laos, with a leg span of up to 30 cm.
Giant Water Bug
A big water bug that stabs fish and tadpoles with its beak, and is drawn to lights.