Stanton's Tee's

Agaricus lilaceps, the cypress agaric

A mysterious rice rat from the Pleistocene of the Caribbean.

Reconstruction of the extinct "diving goose," Chendytes lawi, a flightless dabbling duck from the Pleistocene to early Holocene of California.

From left, clockwise, the probable cambrioerniid Cheungkongella ancestralis, Cambrotentacus sanwu, the cambrioerniids Phlogites longus, and Conicula striata, and the tunicate, Shankouclava anningense, from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna of Yunnan.

Restoration of the fabulous mystery artiodactyl, Andrewsarchus mongoliensis from the Middle Eocene of Inner Mongolia, China, as compared to the giant triisodontid mesonychians, Paratriisodon

Reconstruction of the giant thresher shark, as compared to megalodon.

An extinct species of sunfish from the Miocene of Austria, back when Central Europe was underneath the Paratethys Sea.

Restoration of the extinct mesonychid mammal, Mesonyx obtusidens, of Eocene Wyoming.

Reconstruction of the enchodontid aulopiform, "Dagon" avendanoi, of Middle Cretaceous Mexico.

Aleuria aurantia, the orange peel fungus

Reconstruction of the prehistoric arrow worm, Capinatator praetermissus, compared with Amiskwia, from the Burgess Shale laggerstatte.

Reconstruction of the large brachydeirid arthrodire placoderm, Brachydeirus grandis, from the Late Frasnian Kellwasserkalk fauna of Bad Wildungen, Late Devonian Germany.

An armored jawless fish from the Silurian of what is now Avalanche Lake, Canada.

Reconstruction of the Late Miocene to Middle Pliocene baleen whale, Balaenoptera bertae, from the Purísima Formation in San Francisco Bay, California

An extinct escolar from what is now the Caucasus Mountains in Oligocene Russia.

Agaricus subrufescens, the almond mushroom, or hime-matsutake

A predatory fish from Cretaceous Japan.

A species of arthrodire placoderm from the late Devonian of Morocco. This trout-sized predator ate other fish and held them in place with pronged tooth plates.

Comparison of the chondrichythyids Glikmanius, Diablodontus michaeledmundi, and Kaibabvenator, from Permian Arizona

Reconstruction of the extinct triggerfish, Balistomorphus ovalis, from the Rupellian epoch in Canton Glarus, Switzerland.

Reconstruction of the aberrant, armless crinoid, Cornucrinus longiramus, of Upper Ordovician Sweden.

The Prince, Agaricus augustus

Agaricus campestris, the field mushroom

Reconstruction of the Middle Ordovician paracrinoid echinoderm, Cryptocrinites laevis, of Estonia.

The "Buffalo" sea scorpion, Acutiramus cummingsi, of Silurian Buffalo, New York.

A giant, eagle-sized buzzard from Gargano, Italy, when the region was a volcanic island during the Pliocene.

A mysterious, spiny chimaera from Carboniferous New Mexico.

Reconstruction of various Cleveland Shale arthrodires, including Titanichthys (top), Selenosteus (eating a shark), adult and juvenile Dunkleosteus terrelli (center), and Gorgonichthys (bottom). From the Famennian Epoch of the Late Devonian.

Agaricus silvaticus, the scaly wood mushroom

A weird, arrow worm-like creature from the Burgess Shale

Reconstruction of the abberrant, primitive crab, Callichimera perplexa, of Middle Cretaceous Colombia.

Reconstruction of the raphiophorid asaphid trilobite, Carinocranium cariniferum, of Ordovician Vermont

Reconstruction of the vendiamorph proarticulatan Cyanorus singularis, of the Precambrian White Sea, Russia.

A weird, broad-rimmed snail from Triassic Austria.

Agaricus bisporus, the cultivated mushroom

Amanita jacksoni, American Caesar