Valley

Savu Python

Reticulated: the island-spanning giant

Olive python

Big river python of Australia's north

Oenpelli python

Stone-country giant of Arnhem Land

Indian python

India's river-edge giant constrictor

Reticulated python

The net-patterned giant constrictor

Spotted python

Spots by night, constrict by might

Bredl's Python

Desert-tough, rock-smart python

Muttaburrasaurus

Queensland's blunt-snouted browser

Hooded Oriole

Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest

Krait

Silent stripes, serious venom.

Phorusrhacos

Miocene runner with a can-opener beak

Arctotherium

Short-faced giants of Ice Age South America

Sinosauropteryx

Jehol's fuzzy little predator

Terror Bird

Run fast. Strike hard. Terror bird.

Ceratosaurus

The horned hunter of the Morrison

Tarbosaurus

Nemegt's tyrant king

Megatherium

The Great Beast of the Ice Age

Cave Bear

The Pleistocene cave hibernator

Cave Lion

Ice Age king of the open steppe

Patagotitan

Patagonia's colossal long-neck

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