Eastern Dobsonfly
Big wings. Clean streams. Fierce larvae.
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Natural System Modification Animals
Simbakubwa
Not a lion-Africa's other mega-predator
Coryphodon
Big browser of the Eocene wetlands
Pelycosaurs
Permian pioneers of the mammal line
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
Toxodon
The Pampas' hippo-like grazer
Paleoparadoxia
The North Pacific's ancient "paradox grazer"
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
Snowflake Eel
Spotted night hunter of the reef cracks
American Eel
Born at sea, raised in rivers.
Atlantic Sturgeon
Armored river giant of the Atlantic
Mullet Fish
Coastal recyclers in fast-moving schools