Animals

Articles about animal species, behavior and classification.

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Terror birds

Terror birds (Phorusrhacidae): flightless predatory birds of South America

Tetrigidae

Tetrigidae — pygmy grasshoppers, groundhoppers, and grouse locusts

Tettigoniidae

Tettigoniidae — katydids and bush‑crickets (long‑horned orthopterans)

Texas coral snake

Texas coral snake (Micrurus tener)

Texas toad

Texas toad (Anaxyrus speciosus): appearance, habitat, and behavior

Thalassodromeus

Thalassodromeus — large crested pterosaur from Brazil

Thalassomedon

Thalassomedon — a long‑necked plesiosaur of the Cretaceous seas

Thaliacea

Thelyphonida

Thelyphonida (whip scorpions or vinegaroons): biology, behavior, and facts

Therapsid

Therapsids: early synapsids ancestral to mammals

Theria

Theria — the live‑bearing subclass of mammals

Theridiidae

Theridiidae — the tangle‑web or comb‑footed spiders

Therizinosaur

Therizinosaur: the unusual clawed theropods adapted for herbivory

Therizinosaurus

Therizinosaurus — the giant clawed maniraptoran of the Late Cretaceous

Therocephalia

Therocephalia — extinct theriodonts bridging non-mammalian synapsids and mammals

Theropod

Theropod: bipedal saurischian dinosaurs and the evolutionary lineage of birds

Thescelosaurus

Thescelosaurus: a late Cretaceous herbivore of North America

Thomson's gazelle

Thomson's gazelle

Thorny devil

Thorny devil (Moloch horridus)

Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred (horse breed)

Thread snake

Threat display

Thrush nightingale

Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)

Thylacine

Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger): biology, history and extinction

Thylacinidae

Thylacinidae (the thylacine family)

Thylacinus

Thylacinus — genus of carnivorous marsupials (thylacines)

Thylacinus potens

Thylacinus potens — an extinct large thylacine from Australia

Thylacosmilus

Thylacosmilus: extinct South American sabre-toothed metatherian (Miocene–Pliocene)

Thyreophora

Thyreophora: the shield-bearing (armoured) dinosaurs

Tianyuraptor

Tianyuraptor — Early Cretaceous dromaeosaurid from Liaoning, China

Tibetan antelope

Tibetan antelope (chiru) — high‑altitude antelope of the Tibetan Plateau

Tibetan fox

Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata)

Tiger

Tiger

Tiger (Panthera tigris): overview, traits, range and conservation

Large solitary big cat native to Asia. Covers appearance, behavior, historic range and modern conservation challenges, plus cultural importance and differences from other big cats.

Tiger beetle

Tiger beetle — fast, colorful predatory beetles

Tiger keelback

Tiger keelback (Rhabdophis tigrinus) — overview and natural history

Tiger quoll

Tiger quoll (spotted‑tail quoll) — mainland Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial

Tiger salamander

Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum): overview and conservation

Tiger snake

Tiger snake (Notechis scutatus): description, behavior, and medical importance

Tigger

Tigon

Tigon (hybrid of tiger father and lioness mother)

Tigrosa

Tigrosa — a genus of wolf spiders

Tigrosa helluo

Tigrosa helluo — a North American wolf spider

Tiktaalik

Tiktaalik: a Devonian 'fishapod' bridging fish and early tetrapods

Tilapia

Tilikum (orca)

Tiliqua scincoides

Tiliqua scincoides — Eastern blue‑tongued skink

Timber rattlesnake

Timema

Timema: small, basal stick insects of western North America