Australopithecus
Two legs, small brain, big legacy
Conservation Threats
Urbanization
Expansion of cities and human settlements into wildlife habitats
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Urbanization Animals
Amethystine Python (Scrub Python)
Island giant with an amethyst glow
Diamond Python
Cool-climate python, diamond-bold!
Woma Python
Burrow-dwelling snake-eater of the outback
Jungle Carpet Python
Rainforest gold: the jungle carpet python
Savu Python
Reticulated: the island-spanning giant
Indian python
India's river-edge giant constrictor
Coastal Carpet Python
Patterned climber of the east coast
Spotted python
Spots by night, constrict by might
Children's python
Small python, big night hunter
Hooded Oriole
Palm-frond weaver of the Southwest
Krait
Silent stripes, serious venom.
Sinosauropteryx
Jehol's fuzzy little predator
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Tail-flicking, gnat-grabbing dynamo
Whimbrel
Curved bill, epic journeys
Daeodon
Not a pig-just terrifying teeth.
Troodon
Famous, brainy, and taxonomically tricky
Mosasaurus
Apex lizard of the Cretaceous seas
Gargoyle Gecko
Horned head, forest-night hunter
Python
Big squeeze, bigger diversity.
Red-Footed Tortoise
Red feet, rainforest traveler.
Anomalocaris
Cambrian seas' original superpredator
Leopard Shark
Spots of the surf zone
White Shark
Warm-bodied ruler of the blue