Killdeer
The plover that out-acts predators
Conservation Threats
Urbanization
Expansion of cities and human settlements into wildlife habitats
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Arabian Cobra
Arabia's hooded desert sentinel
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Spit, hood, survive.
Australopithecus
Two legs, small brain, big legacy
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.