Carnivore

Bredl's Python

Desert-tough, rock-smart python

Krait

Silent stripes, serious venom.

Phorusrhacos

Miocene runner with a can-opener beak

Sinosauropteryx

Jehol's fuzzy little predator

Terror Bird

Run fast. Strike hard. Terror bird.

Spinosaurus

Sail-backed hunter of ancient rivers

Compsognathus

Small body, sharp bite, Jurassic sprint

Ceratosaurus

The horned hunter of the Morrison

Tarbosaurus

Nemegt's tyrant king

Basilosaurus

The long-bodied king of Eocene seas

Tylosaurus

Ram-snouted ruler of Cretaceous seas

Plesiosaur

Four flippers, many lifestyles

Tully Monster

Illinois' Carboniferous mystery creature

Cave Lion

Ice Age king of the open steppe

Microraptor

Four wings, one big flight story

Mosasaurus

Apex lizard of the Cretaceous seas

Hyaenodon

Hyena-toothed hunters of deep time

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Late Cretaceous king of crushing bites

Ichthyosaurus

Fish-lizard, built for speed

Megalania

Pleistocene Australia's giant goanna

Livyatan

Big-toothed terror of the Miocene seas

Python

Big squeeze, bigger diversity.

Labout's Fairy Wrasse

Small fish, big reef fireworks

Thanatosdrakon

Argentina's "death dragon" of the skies