The world is full of amazing creatures. Between immortal jellyfish and magnetic cows, we are fortunate to live in so wondrous a place (and doubly so to have somehow reached the top of the food chain ...

Enter the fossil gallery of a natural history museum, and you're likely to encounter spectacular skeletons of some of the most manifestly awesome creatures ever to have walked our planet: dinosaurs.

KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies gift of Nick Pyenson. KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies signed by author. "Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.