Congregation

Texas Garter Snake

Striped hunter of Texas watersides

Speckled Kingsnake

Speckles, strength, and snake-eating swagger

Plains Hognose Snake

All bluff, no bite.

California Kingsnake

The striped hunter of the West

San Francisco Garter Snake

Peninsula wetlands' living ribbon

Malayan Krait

Night-banded, nerve-silencing hunter

Desert Kingsnake

Desert's snake-eating "king"

Green Snake

The vine-colored insect hunter

Cobras

Hood up: the true cobras

Ring-billed Gull

Spot the black ring, know the gull

Archelon Turtle

Titan turtle of the inland sea

Arctodus

Pleistocene's long-legged giant bear

Savu Python

Reticulated: the island-spanning giant

Coastal Carpet Python

Patterned climber of the east coast

Ceratosaurus

The horned hunter of the Morrison

Plesiosaur

Four flippers, many lifestyles

Cave Bear

The Pleistocene cave hibernator

Red Kite

Forked tail, floating flight, comeback!

Troodon

Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky

Elasmotherium

The steppe rhino behind unicorn lore

Megalania

Pleistocene Australia's giant goanna

Pterodactyl

Not dinosaurs-masters of Mesozoic skies

Polacanthus

Hip-shielded tank of the Cretaceous

Sarcosuchus

Super-sized river stalker of the Cretaceous