Coast

Abalones are marine snails with broad muscular feet and flattened shells.

The Adelie penguin is the most widespread penguin of the Antarctic coast.

The African penguin is the only penguin that breeds on the African continent.

Albatrosses are ocean-going seabirds.

The Aldabra giant tortoise is a large land reptile native to a Seychelles atoll.

The American crow is a large all-black bird of farms, woods and city streets across North America.

Anchovies are small schooling fishes.

The Andean condor is a huge black vulture of the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

Marine angelfishes differ from the freshwater aquarium fishes with the same common name.

Anglerfishes include many different marine hunters.

The Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

The Atlantic cod is a cold-water fish of the North Atlantic.

Atlantic mackerel are streamlined schooling fishes of northern seas.

The Atlantic puffin is a small black and white seabird with a bright triangular bill.

The Atlantic salmon hatches in a river, grows up at sea, and returns to the same river to spawn.

Avocets are long-legged wading birds with upward-curving bills.

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States.

Barnacles are crustaceans whose adults are fixed in place.

Barracudas are streamlined predators with conspicuous teeth.

The basking shark is a very large fish that gathers small plankton rather than chasing large prey.

The beluga whale is a white toothed whale of Arctic and sub-Arctic seas.

The bigfin reef squid lives in warm coastal waters around reefs and seagrass.

The black marlin is a large predatory billfish of the Indo-Pacific.

The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.

Blennies include many small fishes living close to the bottom.

The blue mussel is a coastal bivalve that forms dense beds on suitable surfaces.

The blue-footed booby is a seabird of the eastern Pacific that dives on schools of small fish.

The common bottlenose dolphin is a social marine mammal with a curved dorsal fin.

The bowhead whale is a heavy Arctic baleen whale that breaks sea ice with its huge arched head.

Box jellyfishes are named for their angular bells.

Boxfishes have unusually rigid bodies.

Brittle stars have a central disc and long flexible arms.

The brown bear is one of the two largest land carnivores, and it ranges across the forests and mountains of Eurasia and North America.

The bull shark is a robust coastal shark that can also spend time in fresh water.

Butterflyfishes are conspicuous reef inhabitants with flattened bodies.

Caimans are crocodilians of the Americas.

The carrion crow is an all-black crow of western Europe and eastern Asia with a heavy bill and a harsh croak.

The Christmas Island red crab is a land crab that spends most of its life on the forest floor.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

Living coelacanths are lobe-finned fishes, rather than unchanged survivors of a single fossil species.

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common loon is a heavy diving bird of northern lakes, with a black head, a white necklace and a dagger bill.

The common raven is a large black crow that lives right across the northern half of the world.

Cormorants are fish-eating diving birds.

True crabs include many forms.

Crows are adaptable members of the crow family.

Cuttlefish are shell-bearing cephalopods with remarkable camouflage.

The dodo was a flightless pigeon that lived only on Mauritius, and it is now extinct.

Ducks are waterbirds with many different feeding habits.

The dugong is a large marine mammal that grazes seagrass in warm, shallow coastal water from East Africa to Vanuatu.

The Dungeness crab inhabits the Pacific coast of North America.

Egrets are herons known for pale plumage in several species.

Electric rays have specialised organs that produce electrical discharges.

The elegant tern is a slender coastal seabird with a long orange bill and shaggy dark crest.

Elephant seals are large marine mammals.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

Flamingos are long-legged waterbirds with curved filtering bills.

Flounders are flattened fishes adapted to life near the bottom.

Flyingfishes escape the water in gliding leaps.