Temperate Grassland

Western Kingbird

Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line

Northern Bobwhite

Hear the whistle, save the fields.

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

The prairie bird with scissors for a tail

Snow Goose

Two morphs, one Arctic traveler

Loggerhead Shrike

Songbird with a raptor's toolbox

Ruddy Duck

Small duck, big tail attitude

Black-Bellied Whistling Duck

The whistling "tree duck" with style

Northern Pintail

Pointed tail, planet-spanning migrant

Painted Bunting

Nature's living rainbow in the thickets

Panthera atrox (American Lion)

North America's Ice Age lion

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

Cervalces latifrons (Broad-Fronted Moose)

The Pleistocene's broad-browed moose

Haast's Eagle

The moa-hunter of ancient New Zealand

Thylacosmilus

The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat

Andrewsarchus

Big skull, bigger mystery

Embolotherium

Asia's Eocene battering-ram giant

Dinocrocuta

Not a hyena-just built like one.

Equus giganteus

Big horse of Ice-Age America

Irish Elk

The deer with antlers like doorways

Common Yellowthroat

Masked singer of the marsh edge

Black Dragon Lizard

All the beardie charm-dressed in black.