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Stegosaurus ungulatus (USNM 4936) is a large stegosaurid from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America, with specimen USNM 4936 on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Iguanodon bernissartensis is a large herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous, known from exceptionally complete fossils discovered in a coal mine at Bernissart, Belgium, in 1878. The find included dozens of associated skeletons and strongly influenced early scientific reconstructio...

Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of diprotodontid marsupial from the Pleistocene of Australia, closely related to the larger Diprotodon. It was a heavily built herbivore distinguished by a broad skull and prominent cheekbones (zygomatic arches). Fossils have been recovered primarily from sites in sou...

Edmontosaurus regalis was a large, plant-eating hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of western North America, especially Alberta, Canada. It had the broad, toothless beak and dense dental batteries characteristic of hadrosaurs, adaptations for cropping and processing vegetation. Exceptiona...

Styracosaurus albertensis was a herbivorous centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. It had a large nasal horn, a short beak and an expanded neck frill bearing several elongated spikes, including prominent paired spikes projecting from its rear margin. The animal is know...

The black sea urchin, Arbacia lixula, is a dark-spined echinoderm found in the Mediterranean Sea and parts of the eastern Atlantic. It lives mainly on shallow rocky coasts, where it grazes algae from hard surfaces with its mouthparts. Because this feeding affects the amount of algal cover on the sea...

Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis was a large pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous rocks of western North America. It is recognized by a massively thickened, rounded skull dome bordered by knobs and short spikes, while the rest of its skeleton is less completely known. The dome may h...

Massospondylus carinatus is an early sauropodomorph dinosaur known from Early Jurassic rocks in southern Africa, especially South Africa and Lesotho. It had a long neck and tail, a relatively small head, grasping hands, and a body plan associated with the evolutionary lineage that later produced sau...

Camarasaurus supremus is a species of Camarasaurus, a large herbivorous sauropod from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of western North America. Edward Drinker Cope named it in 1877 from fossils discovered in Colorado, and it was the type species of the genus. Camarasaurus had a relatively short...

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus is a stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of present-day Tanzania. Its remains were collected during German expeditions to Tendaguru between 1909 and 1913, and the species was named in 1915. Kentrosaurus had plates along the front portion of its b...

Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis is a centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, named in 1950. Instead of the prominent nasal horn seen in many related ceratopsids, it possessed a broad, thickened bony boss over the nose, together with additional ornamentation on the...

Edaphosaurus pogonias was a large plant-eating synapsid from the Early Permian of North America. It had a relatively small skull, a deep body, and elongated neural spines supporting a prominent dorsal sail; many of those spines carried distinctive lateral crossbars. Although superficially similar to...

Cetiosaurus oxoniensis is a large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic rocks in England, particularly the Oxford Clay and related deposits of Oxfordshire. Richard Owen named the genus Cetiosaurus in 1841, making it one of the earliest sauropod genera recognized by science, although the...

Vulcanodon karibaensis is an early sauropod dinosaur known from Early Jurassic rocks near Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. Its fossils include much of the pelvis, hind limbs, forelimbs, and tail, but no confirmed skull, so its diet and appearance are reconstructed partly from related sauropods. The strong,...

Thylogale browni, commonly known as Brown's pademelon, is a small marsupial species in the family Macropodidae first described by naturalist John Edward Gray in 1837. The species is native to New Guinea and certain nearby islands including New Britain and New Ireland, where it inhabits tropical and...

Camptosaurus dispar is a species of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic epoch. Paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh first described it in 1885 based on fossils recovered from the Morrison Formation. It was a medium-sized, bipedal herbivore that possessed heavy hi...

The musky rat-kangaroo, described by Edward Pierson Ramsay in 1876, is a small marsupial endemic to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland. As the smallest living macropod, it is distinguished from other kangaroos and wallabies by its quadrupedal bounding gait rather than bipedal hoppin...

The short-eared brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus, is a nocturnal arboreal marsupial native to forests of eastern Australia, especially in New South Wales and Queensland. It is a stocky relative of the common brushtail possum and is distinguished by its comparatively short ears, dense fur, and r...

The brown pademelon, also called Brown's pademelon or the New Guinea pademelon, is the macropodid marsupial Thylogale browni. It is native to northern and central New Guinea and has also been recorded on islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, including New Britain and New Ireland, where its presence m...

Patella vulgata, the common limpet, is a marine gastropod of rocky shores in the northeastern Atlantic and around the European Atlantic coast. It has a low, conical shell and uses a broad muscular foot to cling tightly to rock. It grazes algae from the surface during feeding excursions and can retur...

Tegula funebralis is a marine gastropod commonly called the black turban snail. It lives on rocky intertidal shores along the Pacific coast of North America, where it grazes algae and other material from rock surfaces. Its rounded, turban-shaped shell is typically dark, especially in older individua...

Lobatus raninus is a marine strombid commonly called the hawk-wing conch. It occurs in the tropical western Atlantic, including coastal waters around Florida and the Bahamas. The shell has a broad, wing-like outer lip that gives the species its common name. It is associated with shallow sandy bottom...

Lobatus pugilis is a marine strombid commonly called the fighting conch. It occurs in the Caribbean and nearby tropical western Atlantic waters, especially on sandy bottoms and seagrass habitats. When overturned, it can use the pointed operculum attached to its foot as a lever to regain its normal p...

Phorcus lineatus, the toothed top shell, is a marine gastropod in the family Trochidae that lives on rocky shores of the northeastern Atlantic, from Morocco north to the British Isles. It occupies the high and middle intertidal zones of moderately exposed coasts and grazes biofilm and algae from roc...

Cerithium vulgatum, the common cerith or European cerith, is a marine gastropod in the family Cerithiidae. It occurs mainly in the Mediterranean and nearby eastern Atlantic, on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shore to shallow subtidal depths; published records include 0.5 to 35 metres, and s...