Compsognathus
Small body, sharp bite, Jurassic sprint
Animal Habitats
Coastal
Shoreline areas where land meets sea, including dunes and coastal scrub
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Coastal Animals
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
Leedsichthys
Jurassic seas' gentle giant filter-feeder
Suchomimus
Croc-snouted hunter of Cretaceous Niger
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Tail-flicking, gnat-grabbing dynamo
Whimbrel
Curved bill, epic journeys
Red Kite
Forked tail, floating flight, comeback!
Troodon
Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky
Pelagornis
Giants of the wind-swept seas
Mosasaurus
Apex lizard of the Cretaceous seas
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Late Cretaceous king of crushing bites
Pteranodon
Crested ruler of the Cretaceous skies
Ichthyosaurus
Fish-lizard, built for speed
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
Anomalocaris
Cambrian seas' original superpredator
Styracosaurus
A horned face full of spikes
Pterodactyl
Not dinosaurs-masters of Mesozoic skies
Iguanodon
Thumb-spiked titan of Early Cretaceous