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Red Kite

Forked tail, floating flight, comeback!

Daeodon

Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.

Troodon

Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky

Elasmotherium

The steppe rhino behind unicorn lore

Microraptor

Four wings, one big flight story

Pelagornis

Giants of the wind-swept seas

Mosasaurus

Apex lizard of the Cretaceous seas

Hyaenodon

Hyena-toothed hunters of deep time

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Late Cretaceous king of crushing bites

Brachiosaurus

The high-shouldered sky-browsing sauropod

Pteranodon

Crested ruler of the Cretaceous skies

Ichthyosaurus

Fish-lizard, built for speed

Gargoyle Gecko

Horned head, forest-night hunter

Megalania

Pleistocene Australia's giant goanna

Python

Big squeeze, bigger diversity.

Klipspringer

Tiptoe masters of Africa's cliffs

Thanatosdrakon

Argentina's "death dragon" of the skies

Velociraptor

Swift seizer of the Gobi

Pterodactyl

Not dinosaurs-masters of Mesozoic skies

Repenomamus

The mammal that could tackle dinosaurs

Polacanthus

Hip-shielded tank of the Cretaceous

Archaeopteryx

Teeth, tail, and feathers-airborne!

Euoplocephalus

Built like a tank, born to browse

Sarcosuchus

Super-sized river stalker of the Cretaceous