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Bird
The world's most common bird

Bird
The familiar puddle duck

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
Vulnerable coiled survivor of deep reefs

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