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Bird
The world's most common bird
Bird
The widest wingspan on Earth
Reptile
The giant jellyfish specialist
Bird
The world's most dangerous bird
Mammal
The domestic cattle that feeds the world
Mammal
Antarctica's apex predator
Reptile
The tortoiseshell turtle
Mammal
The deep-diving giant with the largest brain
Mammal
Australia's feisty marsupial scavenger
Fish
The heaviest bony fish
Fish
The colourful fly-fisher's favourite
Bird
Flightless nocturnal parrot of New Zealand
Fish
The whip-tailed hunter
Mammal
The rusty-shouldered grazer of eastern Australia
Mammal
The golden-striped kangaroo that lives in trees
Mammal
The roaring stag of Eurasian woodlands
Reptile
The powerful-jawed sea turtle
Mammal
The ancestor of the domestic pig
Bird
The fish-hunting raptor of coasts and lakes
Reptile
World's most venomous snake by lab toxicity
Mammal
The sleek greyhound of the seas
Fish
Second-largest fish; gentle plankton feeder
Mammal
The intelligent farm mammal
Fish
The toothy aquarium shark
Mammal
Australia's wild dog of the outback
Bird
Australia's loud crested parrot
Bird
The crowing guardian of the barnyard flock
Mammal
Nocturnal gliding marsupial of eucalypt forests
Reptile
The friendly desert lizard and favorite pet reptile
Mammal
Australia's iconic eucalyptus-eating marsupial
Mammal
The playful domestic mustelid
Mammal
The agile browser
Mammal
Spiny egg-laying anteater of Australia
Fish
Seaweed-camouflaged relative of seahorses
Bird
Australia's flightless giant
Bird
The ring-necked game bird of field and forest
Fish
Torpedo-shaped reef ambush predator
Bird
Alpine parrot renowned for curiosity
Mammal
The egg-laying, duck-billed mammal of Australia
Mammal
The wallowing bovine of Asia
Mammal
Humanity's oldest livestock
Fish
America's favourite freshwater game fish
Reptile
Eyelash-crested gecko of New Caledonia
Mammal
The gentle sea cow of the Indo-Pacific
Fish
Giant ray with a toothed rostral saw
Reptile
The largest living reptile and most powerful bite on Earth
Reptile
Living-fossil reptile unique to New Zealand
Bird
Ubiquitous sparrow of towns and farms
Bird
Flightless purple swamphen of New Zealand
Fish
Australia's colourful weedy seadragon
Mammal
The largest marsupial and a powerful hopper
Mammal
Long-eared desert bandicoot
Fish
Deep-sea shark with a protrusible jaw
Mammal
The smallest and most abundant rorqual
Mammal
Diurnal termite-eating marsupial
Bird
Master mimic of Australian forests
Fish
World's longest bony fish
Mammal
Largest mainland Australian marsupial carnivore
Bird
The ghostly, heart-faced night hunter
Reptile
Stocky Australian skink with a blue tongue
Insect
The blood-feeding pest of mattresses worldwide
Reptile
Spiky desert lizard that drinks via skin channels
Bird
New Zealand's flightless nocturnal bird with nostrils at the tip of its bill
Insect
The spotted beetle gardeners love
Mammal
The only mammals capable of true flight
Insect
The tireless team-working insect
Mammal
The smiling marsupial of Western Australia
Bird
Blue-black architect of forest bowers
Bird
Speckled invader of global cityscapes
Mammal
Endangered fruit bat of island canopies
Mammal
Nocturnal digger of Australian leaf litter
Mammal
Spotted Tasmanian survivor lost from the mainland
Reptile
Lightning-fast elapid of Australian cane fields
Reptile
Lime-green python of Papuan rainforests
Fish
Queensland river survivor from the age of dinosaurs
Fish
Deep-sea filter ghost discovered in 1976
Fish
Critically Endangered lord of the open ocean
Fish
Warm-blooded hunter of cold Atlantic seas
Fish
Bioluminescent plug-biter of the deep
Fish
Fang-faced ambusher of the abyss
Fish
Pelican-jawed phantom of the abyss
Invertebrate
Soft recycler of tropical reef sediments
Invertebrate
Cube-shaped killer of Australian shallows
Invertebrate
Glass-disc drifter of harbours worldwide
Invertebrate
Cavitation snapper of reef burrows
Invertebrate
Detritus-eating cape of the oxygen minimum zone
Invertebrate
Fin-flapping octopus of the abyssal plain
Invertebrate
Near-indestructible moss dweller under the microscope
Invertebrate
Slime-shooting living fossil of leaf litter
Invertebrate
Spiny coral scourge of Indo-Pacific reefs
Insect
The tiny insect with an outsized impact
Insect
The yellow-and-black predator and scavenger of summer
Mammal
The powerful Australian digger famous for cube-shaped droppings
Insect
The glowing beetle of warm summer nights
Insect
The loud summer singer with a long underground youth
Invertebrate
The big-eyed spider that pounces on its prey
Reptile
The lizard that flares a dramatic neck frill
Bird
The little Australian parakeet and world's most popular pet bird
Bird
The fastest animal on the planet
Insect
The patient ambush predator with folded arms
Insect
The colony-building recycler of dead wood
Insect
The familiar fly found wherever people live
Invertebrate
The fast, venomous predator with many legs
Invertebrate
The slow, many-legged recycler of the forest floor
Insect
The agile aerial hunter of ponds and streams
Insect
The wingless parasite famous for jumping
Bird
The crested Australian parrot known for whistling
Insect
The jumping insect of fields and meadows
Insect
One of the strongest animals for its size
Invertebrate
The slow, shell-carrying garden mollusk
Insect
The hardy survivor that lives almost anywhere
Insect
The chirping insect of warm evenings
Invertebrate
The soil engineer that enriches the earth
Invertebrate
The reef-dwelling giant of the mollusks