Megalochelys
A fossil giant with a living legacy
Conservation Threats
Habitat Loss
Destruction or degradation of natural environments through development, deforestation, or land conversion
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Habitat Loss Animals
Meiolania
Horned head. Armored tail. Island titan.
Eastern Dobsonfly
Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.
Simbakubwa
Not a lion-Africa's other mega-predator
Coryphodon
Big browser of the Eocene wetlands
Anteosaurus
Karoo's pre-dinosaur apex hunter
Holy Cross Frog
The desert frog with a cross on its back
Giant Beaver
Ice Age beaver, supersized.
Palaeophis
Eocene sea-snakes, written in vertebrae
Macrauchenia
South America's long-necked mystery mammal
Dinopithecus
The giant baboon of ancient Africa
Doedicurus
Ice Age armadillo with a mace tail
Archaeoindris
Madagascar's lost giant sloth lemur
Josephoartigasia monesi
Uruguay's titan rodent
Toxodon
The Pampas' hippo-like grazer
Paleoparadoxia
The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"
Viper Boa
Looks like a viper, hugs like a boa.
Flathead Catfish
The mottled, flat-headed night hunter
Scallops
The clapping swimmers of the seafloor
Executioner Wasp
Big paper wasp, bigger attitude
Chiton
Eight plates. One unstoppable grip.
Sand Dollar
Coins of the seafloor, built to burrow
White Catfish
Fork-tailed forager of tidal waters
Red Paper Wasp
Open-comb builders of the Carolinas