Hilly

Timor python

The Lesser Sundas' slender constrictor

Reticulated python

The net-patterned giant constrictor

Bismarck Ringed Python

Ringed hunter of the Bismarck forests

Coastal Carpet Python

Patterned climber of the east coast

Spotted python

Spots by night, constrict by might

Children's python

Small python, big night hunter

Bredl's Python

Desert-tough, rock-smart python

Hooded Oriole

Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest

Krait

Silent stripes, serious venom.

Sinosauropteryx

Jehol's fuzzy little predator

Terror Bird

Run fast. Strike hard. Terror bird.

Megatherium

The Great Beast of the Ice Age

Cave Bear

The Pleistocene cave hibernator

Cave Lion

Ice Age king of the open steppe

Psittacosaurus

Small beak, big Cretaceous success

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher

Tail-flicking, gnat-grabbing dynamo

Gomphotherium

Four tusks, many worlds, one lineage

Canada Warbler

The necklace warbler of the boreal

Red Kite

Forked tail, floating flight, comeback!

Platybelodon

The Miocene Shovel-Tusker

Daeodon

Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.

Troodon

Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky

Microraptor

Four wings, one big flight story

Hyaenodon

Hyena-toothed hunters of deep time