Swimming

Emperor Goose

White-headed goose of the sea-ice edge

King Eider

Crown of the Arctic pack ice

Purple Gallinule

The lily-pad walker of the wetlands

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Tawny flocks, whistled calls

Theropod

From raptors to robins: all theropod

Albertonectes

Alberta's long-necked sea swimmer

Lesser Scaup

Peaked crown, big rafts, true diver

Canvasback

Built for deep dives, born to roam

Gadwall

The "quiet" duck with a bright wing flash

Common Goldeneye

Hear the whistler, spot the gold eye

Tundra Swan

Whistling wings, tundra to tidewater

Anhinga

Spears fish, then sun-dries in style

Snow Goose

Two morphs, one Arctic traveler

Ruddy Duck

Small duck, big tail attitude

Wood Duck

The tree-nesting duck with a leap

Black-Bellied Whistling Duck

The whistling "tree duck" with style

Northern Pintail

Pointed tail, planet-spanning migrant

Panthera atrox (American Lion)

North America's Ice Age lion

Sivatherium

Shiva's horned giant of giraffids

Hippopotamus gorgops

The high-eyed hippo of deep time

Shastasaurus

Triassic titan of the open sea

Icadyptes

Eocene giant of Peru's seas

Cervalces latifrons (Broad-Fronted Moose)

The Pleistocene's broad-browed moose

Thylacosmilus

The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat