Blue Racer
Blue flash of the prairie
Conservation Threats
Genetic Threats
Inbreeding, genetic bottlenecks, and loss of genetic diversity in small populations
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San Francisco Garter Snake
Peninsula wetlands' living ribbon
Uintatherium
Knobs, canines, and Eocene power
Woolly Rhinoceros
Shaggy titan of the mammoth steppe
Archaeotherium
Big jaws, Oligocene badlands boss
Dire Wolf
The Pleistocene's powerhouse wolf
Arctotherium
Short-faced giants of Ice Age South America
Cave Bear
The Pleistocene cave hibernator
Cave Lion
Ice Age king of the open steppe
Platybelodon
The Miocene Shovel-Tusker
Daeodon
Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.
Gigantopithecus
Big teeth, big questions
Beluga Sturgeon
Ancient giant, modern warning
Asian Carp
Plankton powerhouses, river spawners
Freshwater Sunfish
Spiny fins, sunny colors, fierce parents
Arctic Char
Built for ice-cold waters
Giant Weta
Big bug, bold survivor.
Common Carp
Tough fish, muddy footprint.
Simbakubwa
Not a lion-Africa's other mega-predator
Macrauchenia
South America's long-necked mystery mammal
Dinopithecus
The giant baboon of ancient Africa
Atlantic Sturgeon
Armored river giant of the Atlantic
Brook Trout
Vermiculations in the cold current
Spider Beetle
Spider look, beetle build-ptinids!