Dinosaurs
One name, a million body plans
Conservation Threats
Mining
Extraction of minerals and resources causing habitat destruction and pollution
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Mining Animals
Hallucigenia
Cambrian's spiky little evolution clue
Xenoposeidon
England's one-bone sauropod mystery
Earless Monitor Lizard
Borneo's "hidden-ear" river guardian
Bee-Eater
Color in flight, precision in the air
Kagu
Crest up. Wings out. Kagu!
Kowari
Black-banded tail, desert hunter
Skeleton Tarantula
The tarantula with "armed" pedipalps
Arizona Blonde Tarantula
Blond legs, desert burrows, calm giant
Purple Tarantula
Purple velvet of Ecuador's canopy
Chilean Rose Tarantula
Chile's "rose" with a hidden defense
Pumpkin Patch Tarantula
Small spider, big pumpkin vibes
Gooty Sapphire Tarantula
Metallic blue-built for the treetops
Nightjar
Built for twilight insect-hunting
Epicyon haydeni
Miocene muscle: the bone-crushing canid
Puertasaurus
Patagonia's giant, known from fragments
Argentinosaurus
Patagonia's almost-unfathomable giant
Magyarosaurus
A little titanosaur from an island world
Ackie Monitor
Small goanna, spiny-tail swagger.
Red Ackie Monitor
Small goanna, big attitude-spiny tail!
Capuchin
Small hands, big brains.
Tamarin
Small monkeys, big teamwork
Fritillary Butterfly
Four legs, endless wing stories
Trapdoor spider
Hidden door, lightning strike.