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The Bombardier Beetle is a ground-dwelling beetle belonging to the Carabidae family. It utilizes a unique defensive strategy involving chemical production. The beetle creates a hot, irritating spray by rapidly mixing hydroquinones and hydrogen peroxide within its abdomen. This startling reaction ser...
The electric eel, *Electrophorus electricus*, is a South American freshwater fish belonging to the Gymnotidae family. It’s notable for its ability to generate powerful electrical discharges, reaching up to 860 volts. These shocks are used for stunning prey and deterring predators. The species inhabi...
The green lynx spider (*Peucetia viridans*) is a large, bright green ambush predator commonly found on shrubs and wildflowers across the southern United States. It is distinguished by its vivid coloration, red leg markings, and long, spiny legs that aid in capturing insect prey. A unique behavioral...
The great diving beetle, Dytiscus marginalis, is a large aquatic beetle found in freshwater habitats across much of Europe and parts of northern Asia. Both adults and larvae are predators, feeding on aquatic invertebrates and occasionally small vertebrates such as tadpoles or fish. Adults carry air...
Beroe cucumis is a marine comb jelly, or ctenophore, with a transparent, saclike body and rows of cilia that refract light as the animal swims. Unlike tentacle-bearing ctenophores, members of the genus Beroe have a wide mouth and feed on other comb jellies, swallowing prey whole or biting pieces fro...
Predaceous diving beetles comprise the family Dytiscidae, a large group of aquatic insects with over 4,000 recognized species worldwide. Both adults and larvae are voracious predators, actively hunting other aquatic invertebrates, tadpoles, and small fish underwater. To breathe while submerged, adul...
Pelagiarctos thomasi is an extinct species of macropredatory marine mammal closely related to modern walruses, living during the Middle Miocene epoch. Its fossilized remains were primarily discovered in the Sharktooth Hill bonebed in California, a site famous for its rich marine deposits. Unlike mod...
The Forest Caterpillar Hunter (Calosoma sycophanta) is a large, predominantly black ground beetle native to Europe. Recognizable by its size and prominent longitudinal ridges on its wing covers, it is an active predator that climbs trees to hunt caterpillars. It was deliberately introduced to North...
A cydippid ctenophore remarkable for incorporating functional nematocysts sequestered from its cnidarian prey into its own tentacles, a phenomenon known as kleptocnidae.
A tentacle-less ctenophore in the order Beroida that feeds exclusively by engulfing other comb jellies, and has been studied as a biological control for invasive Mnemiopsis.
A cydippid ctenophore described in 1987, notable for tentacles bearing unique helical muscle fibers enabling rapid coiling, a prey-capture trait absent in closely related species.
Solmissus albescens is a narcomedusa jellyfish distributed across tropical and subtropical oceans, notable for actively preying on gelatinous zooplankton including other medusae.
Deep-water bereid ctenophore found in bathypelagic and abyssal zones, notable as one of the few ctenophore species adapted to extreme deep-sea environments.
Slender bereid ctenophore that, like all members of genus Beroe, entirely lacks tentacles and feeds exclusively by engulfing other ctenophores whole.
A narcomedusa named in honor of Prince Albert I of Monaco (of the Grimaldi dynasty), whose late 19th-century oceanographic expeditions yielded many deep-sea specimens.
A small anthomedusa widely distributed in cold North Atlantic waters, belonging to family Corynidae and recognized by its single elongated tubular manubrium.
The Atlantic Moon Snail is a large predatory marine gastropod found along the North American Atlantic coast, known for drilling holes into bivalve shells.
Largest moon snail on North America's Pacific coast, Neverita lewisii is recognized by its massive size and distinctive collar-shaped sand egg cases found on beaches.
Predatory Atlantic moon snail that bores through bivalve shells using a combination of acid secretions and its rasping radula to access the soft tissue inside.
Described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822, the pike conger is a marine fish that commonly inhabits coastal waters and estuaries throughout the broader Indo-West Pacific region.
First described by Peter Forsskål in 1775, the daggertooth pike conger is a large, commercially fished marine species common throughout the coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific.
A pike conger eel (Muraenesocidae) of Indo-Pacific seas, distinguished from relatives by fine, densely packed dark spots distributed across its body surface.
The Atlantic Oyster Drill is a predatory sea snail notable for severely damaging commercial oyster reefs along the North American Atlantic coast.
The Sting Winkle is a predatory marine gastropod native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, notable for boring holes into commercial bivalve shells.
