Savanna

Brazilian Black Tarantula

The Velvet Black Burrower

Pumpkin Patch Tarantula

Small spider, big pumpkin vibes

Nightjar

Built for twilight insect-hunting

Roadrunners

Desert cuckoos built for the fast lane

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

Upland Sandpiper

Fencepost singer of the prairie

Epicyon haydeni

Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid

Dromornis stirtoni

Australia's Miocene mega-bird

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Argentinosaurus

Patagonia's almost-unfathomable giant

Ceratopsian

Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!

Dickcissel

Prairie singer, South America traveler

Northern Bobwhite

Hear the whistle, save the fields.

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

The prairie bird with scissors for a tail

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox

Black-Bellied Whistling Duck

The whistling "tree duck" with style

Painted Bunting

Nature's living rainbow in the thickets

Diprotodon

Pleistocene giant of Australia

Thylacoleo carnifex

Australia's "lion" with a marsupial bite

Sivatherium

Shiva's horned giant of giraffids

Hippopotamus gorgops

The high-eyed hippo of deep time

Masiakasaurus

Madagascar's forward-toothed hunter

Thylacosmilus

The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat

Andrewsarchus

Big skull, bigger mystery