Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- Giant Kidney WormDeep Cut85points
- Giant Leopard MothDeep Cut85points
- Giant leptocephalusDeep Cut85points
- Giant Lion's PawDeep Cut85points
- Giant mantaDeep Cut85points
- Giant marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Giant Mealworm BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Giant millipedeDeep Cut85points
- Giant monkey frogDeep Cut85points
- Giant Orange TigerDeep Cut85points
- Giant paramo rainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Giant parrot snakeDeep Cut85points
- Giant Patagonian bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Giant petrelDeep Cut85points
- Giant Ramshorn SnailDeep Cut85points
- Giant ratDeep Cut85points
- Giant red-winged grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Giant Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Giant sand stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Giant SicklewingDeep Cut85points
- Giant silkworm mothDeep Cut85points
- Giant SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Giant South American river turtleDeep Cut85points
- Giant South American snailDeep Cut85points
- Giant SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Giant Strong-nosed Stink BugDeep Cut85points
- Giant stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Giant swamp tetraDeep Cut85points
- Giant Sweet Potato BugDeep Cut85points
- Giant Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Giant TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Giant trahiraDeep Cut85points
- Giant Tun SnailDeep Cut85points
- Giant TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Giant water bugDeep Cut85points
- Giant Whiptail CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Giant WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Giant White Spot PlecDeep Cut85points
- Giant Wood-RailDeep Cut85points
- Giard's honey antDeep Cut85points
- Gibba TurtleDeep Cut85points
- GibberfishDeep Cut85points
- Giesler's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Gigas MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Gilbert's FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Gilbert's garden eelDeep Cut85points
- Gilbert's Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Gilded BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Gilded catfishDeep Cut85points
- Gilded HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.