Gray

Giant House Spider

Fast runner, funnel-web architect

Dobsonfly

Big jaws, clean streams, short adult lives

Belted Kingfisher

Bank-burrower. Perch-watcher. Plunge-diver.

Tufted Titmouse

Crested whistler of eastern woods

Thresher Shark

The shark that hunts with a whip

Common Angelshark

Ray-shaped, shark-built, seabed hunter

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

White-tipped wings of the high seas

African Golden Cat

The rainforest's hidden cat of many colors

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Megalochelys

A fossil giant with a living legacy

Meiolania

Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.

Arsinoitherium

Rhino looks, afrotherian roots

Hainosaurus

Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas

Stupendemys

Side-necked titan of ancient rivers

Coryphodon

Big browser of the Eocene wetlands

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Anteosaurus

Karoo's pre-dinosaur apex hunter

Palaeophis

Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae

Macrauchenia

South America's long-necked mystery mammal

Dinopithecus

The giant baboon of ancient Africa

Doedicurus

Ice Age armadillo with a mace tail

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Archaeoindris

Madagascar's lost giant sloth lemur

Toxodon

The Pampas' hippo-like grazer