Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hopping Desert Rodents
These small rodents have evolved similar bipedal hopping adaptations for desert life.

- **New World**: Kangaroo rat
- **Old World**: Jerboa
- **Asia & Pacific**: Hopping mouse

Burrowing Moles
Subterranean insectivores with digging adaptations.

- **New World**: Eastern mole
- **Old World**: Golden mole
- **Asia & Pacific**: Southern marsupial mole

Ant and Termite Eaters
Specialized insectivores with long snouts and tongues.

- **New World**: Giant anteater
- **Old World**: Aardvark
- **Asia & Pacific**: Numbat

Gliding Mammals
Arboreal gliders with skin membranes.

- **New World**: Southern flying squirrel
- **Old World**: Siberian flying squirrel
- **Asia & Pacific**: Sugar glider

Wolf-Like Carnivores
Pack or solitary hunters (thylacine extinct).

- **New World**: Coyote, gray wolf (in North America)
- **Old World**: Gray wolf
- **Asia & Pacific**: Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), gray wolf (in Asia)

Sabre-Toothed Predators
Extinct apex predators with long canines.

- **New World**: Smilodon
- **Old World**: Homotherium
- **Asia & Pacific**: Thylacoleo (marsupial lion)

Nectar-Feeding Birds
Hovering nectar specialists.

- **New World**: Ruby-throated hummingbird
- **Old World**: Scarlet sunbird
- **Asia & Pacific**: Eastern spinebill

Spiny Mammals
Protective spiny or quilled animals.

- **New World**: North American porcupine
- **Old World**: Crested porcupine
- **Asia & Pacific**: Short-beaked echidna

Prehensile-Tailed Arboreals
Tree-dwellers with grasping tails.

- **New World**: Woolly opossum
- **Old World**: Tree pangolin
- **Asia & Pacific**: Common ringtail possum

Large Spotted Cats
Spotted ambush predators, including jaguars and leopards.

- **New World**: Jaguar
- **Old World**: Leopard
- **Asia & Pacific**: Clouded leopard

Otters
Semi-aquatic carnivores.

- **New World**: North American river otter, South American giant otter
- **Old World**: Eurasian otter
- **Asia & Pacific**: Asian small-clawed otter

Constrictor Snakes
Large constricting snakes.

- **New World**: Boa constrictor, green anaconda, yellow anaconda
- **Old World**: African rock python
- **Asia & Pacific**: Carpet python

Badger-like Mustelids
Aggressive, stocky carnivores like the honey badger and greater grison.

- **New World**: Greater grison
- **Old World**: Honey badger
- **Asia & Pacific**: Honey badger (in Asia)

Hares and Rabbits
Fast herbivorous lagomorphs.

- **New World**: Snowshoe hare
- **Old World**: European hare
- **Asia & Pacific**: Japanese hare

Possums/Opossums
Marsupial climbers.

- **New World**: Common opossum
- **Old World**: None native
- **Asia & Pacific**: Ringtail possum

Monotremes (Echidnas)
Egg-laying spiny mammals.

- **New World**: None
- **Old World**: None
- **Asia & Pacific**: Short-beaked echidna

Crocodiles
Aquatic ambush predators.

- **New World**: American crocodile
- **Old World**: Nile crocodile
- **Asia & Pacific**: Saltwater crocodile

Pit Vipers
Venomous snakes with heat pits.

- **New World**: Rattlesnake
- **Old World**: Limited (e.g., Caucasus viper)
- **Asia & Pacific**: Habu snake

Sea Eagles
Large raptors with white heads, including bald eagles and other white-headed eagles.

- **New World**: Bald eagle
- **Old World**: White-tailed eagle
- **Asia & Pacific**: White-bellied sea eagle

Carp-like Fish
Freshwater bottom-feeders (common carp introduced to New World).

- **New World**: Common carp (introduced)
- **Old World**: Common carp (native)
- **Asia & Pacific**: Common carp (native)

Scaly Anteaters (Convergent with true anteaters)
Insectivores with scales or long tongues.

- **New World**: Giant anteater (not scaly)
- **Old World**: Pangolin
- **Asia & Pacific**: Pangolin

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