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Dobsonfly

Big jaws, clean streams, short adult lives

European Starling

Mimic, shimmer, and swarm the sky

Downy Woodpecker

Big woodpecker energy-mini size.

Belted Kingfisher

Bank-burrower. Perch-watcher. Plunge-diver.

Vermilion Flycatcher

A spark of red on the riverbank

Tufted Titmouse

Crested whistler of eastern woods

Boxachi

Big-dog heart, small-dog spark

Thresher Shark

The shark that hunts with a whip

Common Angelshark

Ray-shaped, shark-built, seabed hunter

African Golden Cat

The rainforest's hidden cat of many colors

Hawk

Built to see, swoop, and soar

Megalochelys

A fossil giant with a living legacy

Meiolania

Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.

Hainosaurus

Titan hunter of Europe's Cretaceous seas

Eastern Dobsonfly

Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.

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.

Palaeophis

Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae

Doedicurus

Ice Age armadillo with a mace tail

Desmostylus

Pillar-toothed grazer of Miocene coasts

Orange Dream Ball Python

Sunset color, royal python calm