Inland Taipan
Arid Australia's elusive venom specialist
Conservation Threats
Mining
Extraction of minerals and resources causing habitat destruction and pollution
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Mining Animals
Central Ranges Taipan
The desert taipan few ever see
Cobras
Hood up: the true cobras
Archaeotherium
Big jaws, Oligocene badlands boss
Australopithecus
Two legs, small brain, big legacy
Black-headed python
Black cap. Ground hunter. Snake eater.
Pygmy python
Small python, big Pilbara survivor
Boelen's python
Velvet-black python of the highlands
Olive python
Big river python of Australia's north
Oenpelli python
Stone-country giant of Arnhem Land
Sinosauropteryx
Jehol's fuzzy little predator
Compsognathus
Small body, sharp bite, Jurassic sprint
Ceratosaurus
The horned hunter of the Morrison
Canada Warbler
The necklace warbler of the boreal
Daeodon
Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.
Troodon
Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky
Mosasaurus
Apex lizard of the Cretaceous seas
Ichthyosaurus
Fish-lizard, built for speed
Gargoyle Gecko
Horned head, forest-night hunter
Klipspringer
Tiptoe masters of Africa's cliffs
Achrioptera Manga
Madagascar's master of mimicry
Anomalocaris
Cambrian seas' original superpredator
Dreadnoughtus
Patagonia's titan that feared nothing
Archaeopteryx
Teeth, tail, and feathers-airborne!