Crepuscular

Gomphotherium

Four tusks, many worlds, one lineage

Canada Warbler

The necklace warbler of the boreal

Red Kite

Forked tail, floating flight, comeback!

Platybelodon

The Miocene Shovel-Tusker

Daeodon

Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.

Troodon

Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky

Elasmotherium

The steppe rhino behind unicorn lore

Microraptor

Four wings, one big flight story

Pelagornis

Giants of the wind-swept seas

Mosasaurus

Apex lizard of the Cretaceous seas

Hyaenodon

Hyena-toothed hunters of deep time

Pteranodon

Crested ruler of the Cretaceous skies

Short-Faced Bear

Big legs. Short face. Ice Age titan.

Ichthyosaurus

Fish-lizard, built for speed

Gargoyle Gecko

Horned head, forest-night hunter

Megalania

Pleistocene Australia's giant goanna

Python

Big squeeze, bigger diversity.

Klipspringer

Tiptoe masters of Africa's cliffs

Red-Footed Tortoise

Red feet, rainforest traveler.

Achrioptera Manga

Madagascar's master of mimicry

Thanatosdrakon

Argentina's "death dragon" of the skies

Anomalocaris

Cambrian seas' original superpredator

Pterodactyl

Not dinosaurs-masters of Mesozoic skies

Repenomamus

The mammal that could tackle dinosaurs