Temperate Grassland

Killdeer

The plover that out-acts predators

Thylacoleo

Australia's blade-toothed marsupial lion

Woma Python

Burrow-dwelling snake-eater of the outback

Muttaburrasaurus

Queensland's blunt-snouted browser

Phorusrhacos

Miocene runner with a can-opener beak

Arctotherium

Short-faced giants of Ice Age South America

Terror Bird

Run fast. Strike hard. Terror bird.

Tarbosaurus

Nemegt's tyrant king

Megatherium

The Great Beast of the Ice Age

Cave Lion

Ice Age king of the open steppe

Patagotitan

Patagonia's colossal long-neck

Psittacosaurus

Small beak, big Cretaceous success

Whimbrel

Curved bill, epic journeys

Gomphotherium

Four tusks, many worlds, one lineage

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

Amargasaurus

Two spines, one Patagonian icon

Elasmotherium

The steppe rhino behind unicorn lore

Hyaenodon

Hyena-toothed hunters of deep time

Brontosaurus

Thunder lizard, science icon

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Late Cretaceous king of crushing bites

Brachiosaurus

The high-shouldered sky-browsing sauropod