Hippopotamus gorgops
The high-eyed hippo of deep time
Conservation Threats
Natural System Modification
Altered fire regimes, water management, and ecosystem engineering
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Magyarosaurus
A little titanosaur from an island world
Icadyptes
Eocene giant of Peru's seas
Masiakasaurus
Madagascar's forward-toothed hunter
Cervalces latifrons (Broad-Fronted Moose)
The Pleistocene's broad-browed moose
Haast's Eagle
The moa-hunter of ancient New Zealand
Gastornis
Eocene giant with a powerhouse beak
Thylacosmilus
The saber-tooth that wasn't a cat
Andrewsarchus
Big skull, bigger mystery
Embolotherium
Asia's Eocene battering-ram giant
Dinocrocuta
Not a hyena-just built like one.
Elephant Bird
Madagascar's lost giants of the egg
Equus giganteus
Big horse of Ice-Age America
Irish Elk
The deer with antlers like doorways
MacGillivray's Warbler
The Spectacled Singer of the Thickets
Common Yellowthroat
Masked singer of the marsh edge
Asian Water Monitor
The canal-cruising giant of Asia
Ackie Monitor
Small goanna, spiny-tail swagger.
Kermode Bear (Spirit Bear)
Not polar-coastal spirit of the rainforest
Red Ackie Monitor
Small goanna, big attitude-spiny tail!
Lace Monitor
Lace-patterned climber of Australia's east
Mole Crab (Sand Flea)
Burrow fast. Filter the surf.
Hammerhead Worm
Hammerhead hunters of the soil
Bearded Fireworm
Look, don't touch-the reef's fire-beard