European Animals

Aberdeen Terrier
The Aberdeen Terrier (also known as the Scotty and Scottish Terrier) is a small, independent-minded dog that was originally bred in Great Britain to hunt foxes and badgers.

Ant
Ants are social insects that are The sea anemone found worldwide is a predatory The Airedale is animal that looks and in almost every the largest terrier like a flower and environment. - it was originally lives on the bred in England. ocean floor.

Airedale Terrier

Anemone

Arachnids
Arachnids have eight jointed legs, an exoskeleton, and a two- Archaeopteryx part body. Spiders, Archaeopteryx is the scorpions, and ticks are earliest-known bird. arachnids.

The badger is a nocturnal mammal Atlantic Puffins are with a black-andArctic sea white striped face. birds.

Atlantic Puffin

Badger

The Beagle is a The beaver is A large meat-eater from The Basset Hound is a a large friendly, playful the early Cretaceous lively and devoted dog. rodent that dog. It was It was originally bred period. builds dams in Great Britain to hunt originally bred as

Baryonyx

Basset Hound

Beagle

Beaver

rabbits and hares.

a rabbit hunter.

and dens.

Black-Footed Bees are Ferret flying, Bloodhound Bichon Frise social The Black-Footed The Bloodhound is the The Bichon Frise is insects that a small, friendly, Ferret is an heaviest hound dog and live in a endangered type of is an incredible scent active dog with a hive. ferret. tracker. very silky coat.

Bee

Bluebottle

Also known as the The Boxer is a The Brown Bear is The Border Portuguese man-ofa large bear with a powerful, Collie is an war, this floating muscular, playful muscular hump on colony of animals has energetic, hardits shoulders. dog that was working very long, stinging herding dog. originally bred in tentacles. It lives in Germany. warm ocean waters.

Border Collie

Boxer

Brown Bear

Clam Cocker Spaniel The Bulldog is a The Brown Bear is a muscular, wrinkled, Burrowing A friendly, obedient dog that was large bear with a powerful dog that was bivalves with originally bred to a soft body. muscular hump on its originally bred in hunt birds. shoulders. Britain.

Brown Bear (Simple Version)

Bulldog

Compsognathus Coeolodonta The collie is The smallest dinosaur (Simple version) a friendly, The Woolly Rhino The smallest dinosaur yet found; it was a intelligent, is an extinct meat-eater that was the yet found; it was a and rhinoceros from meat-eater that was the size of a chicken. obedient the Ice Ages. size of a chicken. dog.

Collie

Compsognathus

A crab is an Crane animal with a Cranes are large The cony (or pika) is a Cricket shell. It has eyes wading birds small, furry mammal that Crickets are stockpiles food for the on stalks on its with long legs jumping insects. head. and a long neck. winter.

Crab

Cony

The Dachshund is Dalmatian an active dog with a The Dalmatian is The Dobe is a loyal, long body and short a distinctive white intelligent dog. It was legs. dog with spots. originally bred as a police dog in Germany.

Dachshund

Doberman Pinscher Dog

Dove
The dove is a pigeon.

The Also known as the common stoat or the short- house fly is An earthworm is a Eohippus tailed weasel, this little animal with a A tiny, extinct horse a small, tiny, ferocious long, soft body and that lived 50 million flying no legs. years ago. Also called mammal lives in cold insect. areas. Hyracotherium.

Earthworm

Ermine

Fly

Color the picture and answer the The fox is a meat-eating Tadpoles grow questions about the amazing life cycle mammal with a long, up to be frogs. of this amphibian. For the answers, click here. bushy tail.

Fox

Frog

Frog Life Cycle Quiz

Fruit Bat

Fruit bats are large bats Gerrothorax that eat fruit and flowers. A hard-working, herding dog that was originally An ancient amphibian that from Germany. lived over 200 million years ago.

German Shepherd Dog

Grasshoppers are insects that Great Dane A friendly, can hop, walk, and fly. There The Great Dane is a large, intelligent, are about 10,000 different short-haired dog that was energetic, and very species of grasshoppers. originally bred to hunt large popular dog. game.

Golden Retriever

Grasshopper

Hares have Harbor Seals very long hind Harp Seal live in the ocean legs and long Harp Seals are marine Greyhound but breathe air. ears. Unlike mammals that live in The Greyhound is the They are marine rabbits, the the North Atlantic and fastest breed of dog mammals. young are born the Arctic Ocean. for short distance runs. fully haired.

Harbor Seal

Hare

insects that The common A small, plant-eating Hermit Crab are live in a hive house fly is a dinosaur that may have Hermit crabs are crabs and make small, flying lived in herds. that lack a hard shell; insect. honey. they use a discarded shell for protection.

Honey Bee House Fly Honey bees

Hypsilophodon

Iguanodon

A slow, heavy, Ichthyosaurus herding, plant- A slow, heavy, eating dinosaur herding, plantHyracotherium An extinct marine that had thumb- eating dinosaur reptile from the A tiny, extinct horse spikes. Iguanodon that had thumbtime of the that lived 50 million was the second spikes. Iguanodon dinosaurs. years ago. Also called dinosaur was the second Eohippus. discovered. dinosaur discovered.

Iguanodon (Simple version)

Irish Setter
A friendly, energetic, and high-spirited dog that is both a pointer and a setter.

Jack Russell Terrier

John Dory A bold, alert, robust dog The John Dory is a bred originally to drive small animals from their spiny fish with a black spot on its side. burrows.

Lynx The limpet is a Tiny flying Lemmings are small, A powerful wild insects that eat short-tailed rodents marine invertebrate (a cat from Eurasia gastropod) with a garden pests. from North America and North flattened, coneand northern Eurasia. America. shaped shell.

Ladybug

Lemming

Limpet

Mammoth

Mammoths were Also called the The Mastiff is a huge, Mastodons were extinct elephants praying mantid or shaggy, tusked intelligent, and that lived during the praying mantis, this herbivores. powerful dog that is last Ice Ages. predatory insect often used as a guard eats garden pests. dog.

Mantid

Mastiff

Mastodon

Mole Minks are Mediterranean scrub Megalosaurus Moles are (or chaparral) is a This large meat-eater small, shortalmost-blind, legged coastal environment was the first dinosaur members of the burrowing with hot, dry summers named. mammals. weasel family. and mild, rainy winters.

Mediterranean Scrub Animals

Mink

Mice are small Musk Ox rodents with An early mammal from A small flying Musk oxen are long, scaly about 200 million years insect that is a large, hairy tails. ago. carrier of disease. mammals that live in the far north.

Morganucodon

Mosquito

Mouse

Muskrat

Newt
Newts are

Muskrats are Nightingale rodents that small, brightly- A small songbird that often build colored sings beautiful, dome-shaped salamanders. complex songs, often houses. at night.

Old English Sheepdog

The Old English Sheepdog is an affectionate, longhaired dog that was originally bred in Great Britain.

Painted Lady Butterfly

A very widespread and The life cycle of this common butterfly. common butterfly.

Painted Lady Butterfly Life Cycle

Pig

The pig is a This dove thrives mammal with a in cities around flat snout. the world.

Pigeon

Poodle The pika (or cony) Pomeranian A bug that The poodle is a is a small, furry walks on water. The Pomeranian is a lively, intelligent mammal that small, friendly, It is also called dog that was stockpiles food for intelligent the water originally bred to the winter. companion dog. strider. retrieve game from the water.

Pika

Pond Skater

A fastmoving Puffins are Also called the The Portuguese man-of-war is mammal with Arctic sea praying mantis, this a floating colony of animals long ears. birds. predatory insect that has very long, stinging eats garden pests. tentacles. It lives in warm ocean waters.

Portuguese Man-ofWar

Praying Mantid

Rabbit Puffin

Rat
The rat is a rodent with a long tail and a pointed snout.

Red Fox Red efts are newts, The Red Fox is a small, brightlymeat-eating mammal colored with a long, bushy salamanders. tail.

Red Eft

Reindeer
Reindeer are herbivores that live in Arctic regions.

Rottweiler Salamander Also known The Rottweiler is a Salamanders are as the Saint Bernard powerful, muscular, amphibians that pigeon, this A large, muscular, determined dog that was retain their tail as dove thrives heroic dog originally bred in an adult. in cities originally from Rottweil, Germany, as a around the Switzerland. cattle guarding and world. herding dog.

Rock Dove

A venomous Sea Lion The Scottish Terrier (also arachnid with a Sea lions are A predatory known as the Scotty and large stinger on eared seals that Aberdeen Terrier) is a animal that looks its tail. small, independent-minded like a flower and live on coastlines. dog that was originally bred lives on the ocean floor. in Great Britain to hunt foxes and badgers.

Scorpion

Scottish Terrier (Scotty)

Sea Anemone

Sheep

Sheep are mammals The Old English with thick, Sheepdog is an furry fur and hoofed feet. affectionate, long-haired dog that was originally bred in Great Britain.

Sheepdog, Old English

Also known as stoat Shrews are tiny or ermine, this tiny, mammals that are ferocious mammal quite ferocious. lives in cold areas.

Short-tailed Weasel

Shrew

Slow Worm Shrimp are small, bottom-dwelling The slow worm is a crustaceans with a legless lizard that looks like a snake (it translucent

Shrimp

Snail
A soft-bodied animal with a Snakes hard, protective Snakes are reptiles shell.

exoskeleton.

is not a worm at all).

that have a long, narrow body and no legs.

Spider
Spiders have eight Squirrel Squirrels are legs. rodents.

Stegosaurus St. Bernard

A large, muscular, heroic dog originally from Switzerland. A plant-eating dinosaur with rows of plates on its back and spikes on its tail.

Also known as Stegosaurus short-tailed weasel Jack Russell A plant-eating Skeleton or ermine, this A working dog dinosaur with rows tiny, ferocious that was bred to See the bones of this of plates on its drive small mammal lives in back and spikes on huge, plated plantanimals from cold areas. eating dinosaur. its tail. their burrows.

Stegosaurus (Simple version)

Stoat

Terrier,

Alert, robust, Terrier, Scottish curious dogs The Scottish Terrier that were (also known as the originally bred Scotty and Aberdeen to drive small Terrier) is a small, animals from independent-minded

Terriers

Thecodontosaurus
An early plant-eating dinosaur from the late Triassic period.

Toad
Toads are amphibians with poison glands; they usually have bumpy skin.

their burrows.

dog that was originally bred in Great Britain to hunt foxes and badgers.

A carnivorous Trilobites are extinct The walrus is a Wasps are insects mammal that has a marine arthropods large mammal with 2 pairs of long, slender body that lived from about that spends most wings and strong and short legs. 540 to 245 million of its life in icy jaws. Many wasps years ago. seas. sting.

Trilobite

Walrus

Wasp

Weasel

A lively, assertive dog that A confident, fast-running dog The White dove is a pigeon. that was originally bred in was originally bred in Great Britain. Scotland in the 1800's to hunt rats.

West Highland White Terrier

Whippet

White Dove

The Wolverine is a large, Woolly Mammoth Woolly Rhinoceros ferocious weasel that lives The Woolly Mammoth is The Woolly Rhino is an an extinct elephant from extinct rhinoceros from in cold areas. the Ice Ages. the Ice Ages.

Wolverine

Worms are little animals with Yellow Jacket a long, soft body and no legs. A yellow jacket is a Yorkshire Terrier Earthworms are worms that type of social wasp, a A small, intelligent, longhaired dog that is a benefit the soil. flying, stinging insect. wonderful companion.

Worm