Every species, properly named.
Backed by GBIF and IUCN.

African Lion

Panthera leo

Africa's largest cat and the only big cat that lives in social groups. Lion populations have declined by an estimated 43% over the past two decades, with strongholds remaining in Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa.

African Penguin

Spheniscus demersus

The only penguin that breeds on the African continent, found along the coasts of South Africa and Namibia. Once numbering in the millions, the species has collapsed to a fraction of its historic population and was uplisted to Critically Endangered in 2024.

African Penguin

Spheniscus demersus

African River Wildlife

Giraffa reticulata

African Savanna Elephant

Loxodonta africana

The largest land animal on Earth, with adults reaching 4 meters at the shoulder and weighing up to 6,000 kg. Highly intelligent and deeply social, African savanna elephants live in matriarchal family groups across sub-Saharan Africa.

Asian Elephant

Elephas maximus

Asian Elephant

Elephas maximus

Smaller than its African cousin and the largest land animal in Asia, the Asian elephant is deeply woven into the cultures of its range. Fewer than 50,000 remain in the wild, scattered across fragmented forests from India to Borneo.

Atlantic Puffin

Fratercula arctica

A small black-and-white seabird with a brightly colored beak that breeds in colonies on cliffs and islands in the North Atlantic. Spends most of its life at sea and returns to land only to nest.

Blacktip Reef Shark

Carcharhinus melanopterus

Broadnose sevengill shark

Notorynchus cepedianus

California Condor

Gymnogyps californianus

Chimpanzee

Pan troglodytes

Florida Manatee

Trichechus manatus latirostris

Giant Otter

Pteronura brasiliensis

Giant Panda

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

A bear native to the mountains of central China, instantly recognizable for its bold black-and-white coat and gentle disposition. Once Critically Endangered, the giant panda was reclassified to Vulnerable in 2016 after decades of conservation effort produced measurable population recovery.

Giant Sea Bass

Stereolepis gigas

Giraffe

Giraffa camelopardalis

Green Sea Turtle

Chelonia mydas

Hippopotamus & River Wildlife

Hippopotamus amphibius

Humboldt Penguin

Spheniscus humboldti

Leopard & Savanna Wildlife

Panthera pardus

Mountain Gorilla

Gorilla beringei beringei

A subspecies of eastern gorilla found in only two populations: the Virunga Mountains spanning Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. Once predicted to be extinct by the turn of the century, mountain gorillas have rebounded to over 1,000 individuals.

Northern Royal Albatross

Diomedea sanfordi

One of the world's great seabirds, with a wingspan of up to 3.3 meters — second only to the wandering albatross. Nests almost exclusively on the Chatham Islands east of New Zealand, with a single small mainland colony at Taiaroa Head on the Otago Peninsula.

Northern Sea Otter

Enhydra lutris kenyoni

Philippine Eagle

Pithecophaga jefferyi

One of the rarest and most powerful eagles in the world, endemic to the old-growth forests of four Philippine islands. Stands roughly a meter tall and weighs up to 8 kg with a 2-meter wingspan. The national bird of the Philippines.

Polar Bear

Ursus maritimus

The Arctic's apex predator and the world's largest land carnivore. Polar bears depend on sea ice as a hunting platform — making them one of the species most directly threatened by climate change.

Red Panda

Ailurus fulgens

A small, mostly arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. Despite the name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas — they are the sole living member of their own family, Ailuridae.

Reindeer

Rangifer tarandus

Sand Tiger Shark

Carcharias taurus

Sea Otter

Enhydra lutris

A keystone marine mammal of the North Pacific, sea otters keep kelp forests healthy by preying on sea urchins. Hunted to near-extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries for the densest fur of any mammal, sea otters survive today in a handful of recovering populations.

Snow Leopard

Panthera uncia

Southern sea otter

Enhydra lutris nereis

Sumatran Tiger

Panthera tigris sumatrae

Tiger

Panthera tigris

West Indian Manatee

Trichechus manatus

A gentle, slow-moving aquatic mammal that grazes on submerged vegetation in coastal waterways from the southeastern United States through the Caribbean. Manatees evolved from terrestrial ancestors closer to elephants than to whales.

Western Lowland Gorilla

Gorilla gorilla gorilla

Whale Shark

Rhincodon typus

Allen's Hummingbird

Selasphorus sasin

American Flamingo

Phoenicopterus ruber

American Kestrel

Falco sparverius

Australian Fur Seal

Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus

Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

A large sea eagle native to North America and the national bird of the United States. Once nearly wiped out by DDT-induced eggshell thinning in the mid-20th century, the bald eagle has staged a dramatic recovery and is now Least Concern.

Barred Owl

Strix varia

Beluga Whale

Delphinapterus leucas

Black-tailed prairie dog

Cynomys ludovicianus

Blue Wildebeest

Connochaetes taurinus

Bobcat

Lynx rufus

Boreal Forest Finches & Jays

Fringillidae

Brown Bear

Ursus arctos

One of the largest land carnivores on Earth, with coastal Alaskan populations sometimes exceeding 600 kg. Highly intelligent and adaptable, brown bears range from the high Arctic to the Mediterranean. The most famous populations gather at Alaska's Brooks Falls each summer to catch migrating sockeye salmon.

Brown bear (coastal grizzly)

Ursus arctos

Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth

Bradypus variegatus

Eurasian beaver

Castor fiber

Gentoo Penguin

Pygoscelis papua

Gray Wolf

Canis lupus

The largest member of the dog family and the ancestral species of domestic dogs. Once the most widely distributed land mammal on Earth, gray wolves were extirpated from most of their range in the twentieth century and are now slowly recovering across parts of North America and Europe.

Gray wolf (incl. Mexican gray & red wolf)

Canis lupus

Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Great Horned Owl

Bubo virginianus

Harbor Seal

Phoca vitulina

The most widely distributed seal in the world, found along temperate and Arctic coastlines across the Northern Hemisphere. Harbor seals haul out on rocks, sandbars, and beaches to rest, often near the harbors that give them their name.

Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth

Choloepus hoffmanni

King Penguin

Aptenodytes patagonicus

The second-largest penguin species, after the emperor penguin. King penguins breed on subantarctic islands in vast colonies that can number in the hundreds of thousands.

Lesser Spotted Eagle

Clanga pomarina

Little Blue Penguin

Eudyptula minor

Magellanic Penguin

Spheniscus magellanicus

Malayan (large) flying fox

Pteropus vampyrus

Mexican free-tailed bat

Tadarida brasiliensis

Naked Mole-Rat

Heterocephalus glaber

Nile Crocodile

Crocodylus niloticus

North American beaver

Castor canadensis

North American River Otter

Lontra canadensis

Open-ocean community (tuna, sharks, turtles)

Thunnus orientalis

Osprey

Pandion haliaetus

Osprey

Pandion haliaetus

A medium-large raptor that lives exclusively on a diet of fish — the only North American raptor that does. Found on every continent except Antarctica. Famous for migrating thousands of miles between North American breeding grounds and South American wintering sites.

Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

Plains bison

Bison bison bison

Plains Zebra

Equus quagga

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

Sockeye salmon

Oncorhynchus nerka

Tropical Tanagers (fruit feeder community)

Thraupidae

Western Snowy Plover

Charadrius nivosus

White Rhinoceros

Ceratotherium simum

White Stork

Ciconia ciconia

White-tailed Eagle

Haliaeetus albicilla

Coastal Ocean Vista

Coastal Ocean Vista

Coral Reef Community

Anthozoa

Coral reefs are dense underwater communities built by colonies of stony corals and inhabited by an extraordinary diversity of fish, invertebrates, and microbial life. Considered the rainforests of the sea, reefs support 25% of marine biodiversity despite covering less than 1% of the ocean floor.

Coral Reef Community

Anthozoa

Domestic Cattle

Bos taurus

Domestic Horse

Equus caballus

Domestic Pig

Sus scrofa domesticus

Domestic Sheep

Ovis aries

Giant kelp forest

Macrocystis pyrifera

Giant Pacific Octopus

Enteroctopus dofleini

Greater Pacific moon jelly

Aurelia labiata

Japanese Spider Crab

Macrocheira kaempferi

Mixed Species

Mixed Species

Moon jelly

Aurelia aurita

Pacific sea nettle

Chrysaora fuscescens

Scenic landscape (Katmai)

Scenic landscape (Katmai)

Tropical Bird Community

Aves

Tropical Bird Community

Aves (Neotropical)

The community of fruit-eating, nectar-feeding, and insect-gleaning birds that share Neotropical forest habitats from southern Mexico through South America. Includes tanagers, honeycreepers, motmots, toucans, manakins, hummingbirds, and many other lineages — one of the most species-rich bird assemblages on Earth.

Western honey bee

Apis mellifera