Coastal Carpet Python
Patterned climber of the east coast
Animal Habitats
Shrubland
Areas dominated by shrubs and bushes, including chaparral and heathland
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Shrubland Animals
Spotted python
Spots by night, constrict by might
Children's python
Small python, big night hunter
Bredl's Python
Desert-tough, rock-smart python
Hooded Oriole
Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest
Krait
Silent stripes, serious venom.
Titanoboa
The rainforest boa that broke records
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.
Ceratosaurus
The horned hunter of the Morrison
Tarbosaurus
Nemegt's tyrant king
Megatherium
The Great Beast of the Ice Age
Patagotitan
Patagonia's colossal long-neck
Psittacosaurus
Small beak, big Cretaceous success
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Tail-flicking, gnat-grabbing dynamo
Gomphotherium
Four tusks, many worlds, one lineage
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