Flags
Featuring red and white, the Canadian flag features this image of foliage.
This recently extinct animal has been found frozen in Russia, and is a popular animal featured in movies such as Ice Age.
Wooly Mammoth
Mount St. Helens
This marine animal alive today is known as being the largest animal to have ever existed.
Blue whale
A mammoth, sloth, and saber-tooth tiger team up to bring a baby home. Also one of my favorite movies of all time.
Ice Age
This U.S. state's official flag depicts an extinct subspecies of brown bear no longer found in the state.
California
This extinct flightless bird is widely known for its stupidity and goofiness, but its evolution on an island without predators favored this lack of fear and intelligence.
Dodo bird
This Russian lake is the deepest lake in the world at over 5,000 feet deep.
Lake Baikal
This oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
Mariana Trench (Challenger Deep is acceptable)
This musical movie tortured me as a child, as I was forced to watch the first 30-45 minutes of it at least 30 times in elementary school.
High School Musical
These two close-knit countries share very similar flags of the British flag in the upper left corner and stars organized on a dark blue background.
Australia and New Zealand
This is believed to be the primary cause of the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Chicxulub meteorite (off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico)
Manitoulin Island is the largest island in a lake in the world, located in this North American Great Lake.
This deep sea cephalopod is the largest known invertebrate in body weight, and has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.
Colossal squid
I joke about this kids movie having the same plot of the first season of the popular anime Sword Art Online.
Spy Kids 3
This European flag represents one of the main 3 countries of my European ancestry.
Croatia
This early Cambrian species, literally translating to "abnormal shrimp", is believed to be one of the earliest examples of an apex predator.
Anomalocaris
From its base above or below sea level to its peak, what is the tallest volcano (and mountain) in the world.
Mauna Kea
Mantis Shrimp
This movie was written and directed by comedy musician Bo Burnham about finding yourself as a young adult.
Eighth Grade
This is one of the 15 counties flags of this country, often criticized by online vexillology groups for its design.
Liberia
The Permian extinction, the largest mass extinction event in history, was caused by a volcanic event that formed *this* large region of volcanic rock located in Russia
Siberian Traps
Located in New Zealand, this crater lake is also a supervolcano of the same name that has produced two of the world's most powerful eruptions in recent geologic times.
Taupo (Lake or volcano)
This critically endangered species is the largest freshwater fish in the world and shares part of its name with a popular whale species.
Beluga sturgeon
I have seen the first 3 movies of this 7 movie monster-horror franchise about ancient subterranean monsters.
Tremors