Walking

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

Eastern Dobsonfly

Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.

Stupendemys

Side-necked titan of ancient rivers

Simbakubwa

Not a lion-Africa's other mega-predator

Coryphodon

Big browser of the Eocene wetlands

Pelycosaurs

Permian pioneers of the mammal line

Anteosaurus

Karoo's pre-dinosaur apex hunter

Giant Beaver

Ice Age beaver, supersized.

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

Josephoartigasia monesi

Uruguay's titan rodent

Toxodon

The Pampas' hippo-like grazer

Paleoparadoxia

The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"

Executioner Wasp

Big paper wasp, bigger attitude

Red Paper Wasp

Open-comb builders of the Carolinas

Tailless Whip Scorpion

Feelers first. Pincers ready.

Oriental Cockroach

The basement-dwelling "black beetle"

Partridge

Small birds, big survival skills.