Istiophorus platypterus

The sailfish is the fastest fish in the ocean, capable of bursts exceeding 110 km/h that make it the undisputed speed champion of all marine…

Galeocerdo cuvier

The tiger shark is the ocean’s great generalist predator, second only to the great white in documented attacks on humans but far more ecologically wide-ranging.…

Phasmatodea (order)

Stick insects are the world’s greatest living impostors, belonging to the order Phasmatodea which contains over 3,000 species, all masters of camouflage. They mimic twigs,…

Aurelia aurita

The moon jellyfish is one of the most widespread and recognizable cnidarians on the planet, drifting through every ocean from the tropics to subarctic seas.…

Columba livia

The rock pigeon is one of the world’s oldest domesticated birds, with evidence of pigeon husbandry dating back over 5,000 years in Mesopotamia. The wild…

Anas platyrhynchos

The mallard is the most abundant and widely distributed duck in the world, ancestral to nearly all domestic duck breeds and found across the entire…

Architeuthis dux

The giant squid is one of the largest invertebrates on Earth and one of the most elusive megafauna, never observed alive in its natural deep-ocean…

Physeter macrocephalus

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on Earth and the deepest-diving mammal, capable of descending over 3,000 meters in search of giant squid.…

Apis mellifera

The western honey bee is arguably the world’s most economically important insect, pollinating roughly one-third of all human food crops and producing honey as a…

Musca domestica

The common housefly is one of the world’s most widely distributed insects, found on every continent except Antarctica wherever humans and their livestock create warm,…

Thunnus thynnus

The Atlantic bluefin tuna is the largest of all tuna species and one of the most extraordinary fish on the planet — a warm-blooded, highly…

Rhincodon typus

The whale shark is the world’s largest fish, a slow-moving filter feeder that drifts through tropical oceans consuming enormous volumes of tiny plankton, fish eggs,…