California Tarantula
Velvet-dark ambush hunter of California
Mating Social Behaviors
Solitary
Individuals live alone except during mating encounters, with no lasting social bonds
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Solitary Animals
Pumpkin Patch Tarantula
Small spider, big pumpkin vibes
Gooty Sapphire Tarantula
Metallic blue-built for the treetops
Green Bottle Blue Tarantula
Desert jewel, webbing machine
Mexican Fireleg Tarantula
Fire-legged, burrow-built, Mexico-made
Epicyon haydeni
Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid
Dromornis stirtoni
Australia's Miocene mega-bird
Thylacoleo carnifex
Australia's "lion" with a marsupial bite
Masiakasaurus
Madagascar's forward-toothed hunter
Cervalces latifrons (Broad-Fronted Moose)
The Pleistocene's broad-browed moose
Gastornis
Eocene giant with a powerhouse beak
Thylacosmilus
The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat
Andrewsarchus
Big skull, bigger mystery
Dinocrocuta
Not a hyena-just built like one.
Elephant Bird
Madagascar's lost giants of the egg
Asian Water Monitor
The canal-cruising giant of Asia
Ackie Monitor
Small goanna, spiny-tail swagger.
Kermode Bear (Spirit Bear)
Not polar-coastal spirit of the rainforest
Red Ackie Monitor
Small goanna, big attitude-spiny tail!
Lace Monitor
Lace-patterned climber of Australia's east
Black Throat Monitor
Dark throat. Big brain. Savanna hunter.
Axanthic Ball Python
All the pattern-none of the yellow
Hammerhead Worm
Hammerhead hunters of the soil
Hairy Frogfish
Hairy master of disguise-hook, lure, gulp