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Great auk
Great aukTemporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Holocene, ~400,000 BC – 1852 AD
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Specimen No. 8 and replica egg in the Kelvin…
Great cuckoo-dove
Great cuckoo-dove
R. r. reinwardti
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
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Great spotted woodpecker
Great spotted woodpecker
Adult male Dendrocopos major pinetorum
Drumming recorded in Devon, England
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)…
Greater crested tern
Greater crested tern
Breeding plumage T. b. bergii, Gansbaai, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classific…
Green rosella
Species of parrot native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands
Grevillea juniperina
Grevillea juniperina
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Cla…
Grey currawong
Grey currawong
At Perup, Western Australia
Grey currawong call recorded in the ACT
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientif…
Grey-cowled wood rail
Grey-cowled wood rail
Grey-cowled wood rail
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
P…
Guadeloupe amazon
Guadeloupe amazon
Du Tertre's 1667 illustration showing three Guadeloupe amazons (8) and one Lesser Antillean macaw (7) on a tree at the left
Conservat…
Guy Bradley
Guy Morrell Bradley (April 25, 1870 – July 8, 1905) was an American game warden and deputy sheriff for Monroe County, Florida. Born in Chicago, Illi…
Gymnopilus maritimus
Gymnopilus maritimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
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Gyromitra esculenta
Gyromitra esculenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Pezizomycetes
Order:
Pezizales
Family:
Disci…
Hammond's rice rat
Hammond's rice rat
Skull and mandible
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum…
Hartebeest
Hartebeest
Coke's hartebeest in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification…
Hathor
Hathor (Ancient Egyptian: ḥwt-ḥr, lit. 'House of Horus', Ancient Greek: Ἁθώρ Hathōr, Coptic: ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic: 𐦠𐦴𐦫𐦢‎ Atari) was a major goddess in an…
Herrerasaurus
HerrerasaurusTemporal range: Late Triassic (Carnian), 231.4–228.91 Ma
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Hippopotamus
HippopotamusTemporal range: Pleistocene–Recent
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A hippopotamus in Saadani National Park, Tanzania
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Huia
HuiaTemporal range: Holocene
A pair of huia (male in front of female) from W. L. Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand (1888)
Conservation sta…
Humpback whale
Humpback whaleTemporal range: 7.5–0 Ma
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Late Miocene – Recent
Size compared to an average human
Jaguar
JaguarTemporal range: Early Pleistocene – present (~850,000–0 YBP)
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
CITES Appendix I 
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Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Bro…
Kelpie
A kelpie, or water kelpie (Scottish Gaelic: each-uisge), is a mythical shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Scottish folklore. They also inhabit meres and…
Koala
KoalaTemporal range: 0.7–0 Ma
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Middle Pleistocene – Recent
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scien…
Laika
Laika (/ˈlaɪkə/ LY-kə; Russian: Лáйка, IPA: [ˈlajkə]; c. 1954 – 3 November 1957) was a Soviet space dog who was one of the first animals in space …