Credits & Acknowledgements
With thanks to the people who captured these creatures
This is a non-commercial, educational preservation of Microsoft Dangerous Creatures (1994), rebuilt for the modern web so a new generation of kids can explore it. Every photograph, film clip, and article was created by the photographers, filmmakers, writers, and agencies credited below. We're deeply grateful for their work — this project exists only to keep it alive and accessible.
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The original
Microsoft Dangerous Creatures (1994) — Microsoft Home, Microsoft Corporation
Photography & Footage
Images and film clips courtesy of Photo Researchers, Inc. · Animals Animals · Oxford Scientific Films · Earth Scenes · ALLSTOCK, Inc. · Science Photo Library · Science Source · World Wildlife Fund · Norbert Wu · NAS Collection · Okapia · Dorling Kindersley Limited — and the many individual photographers and filmmakers below:
A. Cosmos Blank/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Abigail Riblet
Al Szabo/Animals Animals
Alan G. Nelson/Animals Animals
Alan Root/Okapia/NAS Collection/Photo
Albert Visage/Photo Researchers, Inc.
ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Ana Laura Gonzalez/Animals Animals
Animals Animals
Anthony Bannister/Animals Animals
Anthony Mercieca/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Anup and Manoj Shah/Animals Animals
Art Wolfe/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Arthur Gloor/Earth Scenes
Ashod Francis/Animals Animals
Australian National Tourist Office
Ben Cropp
Betty K. Bruce/Animals Animals
Bill Bachman/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Biophoto Associates/Science Source/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Bob Citron/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Bob Cranston/Norbert Wu
Breck P. Kent/Animals Animals
Bruce Bunting/World Wildlife Fund
Bruce Davidson/Animals Animals
Bruce Watkins/Animals Animals
Bucky Reeves/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Calvin Larsen/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Carl Purcell/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Carl Roessler/Animals Animals
Carson Baldwin, Jr./Animals Animals
Charles Krebs/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Charles Palek/Animals Animals
Charlie Ott/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Chris Johns/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Christian Grzimek/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Christopher Arnesen/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Clay H. Wiseman/Animals Animals
Dan Guravich/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Daniel J. Cox/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Dav Guravich/Photo Researchers, Inc.
David C. Fritts/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
David C. Fritts/Animals Animals
David Cayless/Oxford Scientific Films
David Cayless/Oxford Scientific Films/Animals Animals
David Hall/Photo Researchers, Inc.
David R. Frazier/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Don and Lolly Skillman/Animals Animals
Donald Specker/Animals Animals
Dorling Kindersley Limited, London. All rights reserved.
Doug Wechsler/Animals Animals
Dr. Jeremy Burgess/Science Photo Library
Duncan Anderson and Rachel Wilder/Animals Animals
E. Hanumantha Rao/Photo Researchers, Inc.
E.E. Kingsley/Photo Researchers, Inc.
E.R. Degginger/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Earl Roberge/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Eberhard Brunner/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Frans Lanting/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Fred Bavendam/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Fred Felleman/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Fred McConnaughey/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Fritz Prenzel/Animals Animals
Gary Braasch/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
George Holton/Photo Researchers, Inc.
George Whiteley/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Gerard Lac/Animals Animals
Gerard Lacz/Animals Animals
Gregory G. Dimijian, M.D./Photo Researchers, Inc.
Gregory G. Dimijian/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Grzimek/Okapia/Photo Researchers, Inc.
H. Reinhard/Okapia/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Hans and Judy Bestt/Animals Animals
Herb Segars/Animals Animals
Holt Studios Int./Earth Scenes
Horus/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
J. Durk/Photo Researchers, Inc.
J. H. Robinson/Animals Animals
J. H. Robinson/Photo Researchers, Inc.
J. W. Mowbray/Photo Researchers, Inc.
J.A. L. Cooke/Oxford Scientific Films/Animals Animals
J.W. Mowbray/Photo Researchers, Inc.
James D. Watt/Animals Animals
James Martin/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
James P. Jackson/Photo Researchers, Inc.
James Watt/Animals Animals
Jan Lindblad/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Jany Sauvanet/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Jeanne White/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Jeff Lepore/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Jim and Julie Bruton/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Jim Stamates/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Joe B. Blossom/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Joe McDonald/Animals Animals
Joel Bennett/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
John Chellman/Animals Animals
John Mitchell/Photo Researchers, Inc.
John Nees/Animals Animals
Johnny Johnson/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Johnny Johnson/Animals Animals
Junebug Clark/Photo Researchers, Inc.
K.H. Switak/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Karen Lukas/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Kathie Atkinson/Animals Animals
Keith Gillett/Animals Animals
Kevin Schafer/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Kjell B. Sandved/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Klaus Hilgert/Okapia/Photo Researchers, Inc.
L.L.T. Rhodes/Animals Animals
Leonard Lee Rue III/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Lowell Georgia/Photo Researchers, Inc.
M. Philip Kahl/Photo Researchers, Inc.
M. Reardon/Photo Researchers, Inc.
M.H. Sharp/Photo Researchers, Inc.
M.P. Kahl/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Malcolm Boulton/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Marjorie Bank/Norbert Wu
Mark Boulton/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Mark D. Phillips/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Mark Kelley/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Mark N. Boulton/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Martin Dohrn/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Martyn Colbeck/Oxford Scientific Films/Animals Animals
Mich Summer/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Michael Dick/Animals Animals
Michael Fogden/Animals Animals
Michael Fogden/Oxford Scientific Films/Animals Animals
Michael Giannechini/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Michael Javorka/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Michael P. Gadomski/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Mickey Gibson/Animals Animals
Mike James/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Mike Neumann/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Miriam Austerman/Animals Animals
Mitch Reardon/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Nancy Septon/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Norbert Wu
Norbert Wu/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Nuridsany et Perennou/Photo Researchers, Inc.
P and W Ward/Oxford Scientific Films/Animals Animals
Pam Beason
Paolo Koch/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Pat Crowe/Animals Animals
Patti Murray/Animals Animals
Paul Freed/Animals Animals
Peter B. Kaplan/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Peter Parks/Animals Animals
Peter Weimann/Animals Animals
Phillip Hayson/Photo Researchers, Inc.
R.J. Erwin/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Ranjitsinh/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Raymond A. Mendez/Animals Animals
Raymond Mendez/Animals Animals
Renee Lynn/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Renee Lynn/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Richard Kolar/Animals Animals
Richard Kolar/Earth Scenes
Robert Caputo/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Robert Maier/Animals Animals
Robert Noonan/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Rod Planck/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Rosanne Lehmann
Rudolf Freund/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Sophie De Wilde/Jacana/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Sophie de Wilde/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Stan Osolinski/Oxford Scientific Films/Animals Animals
Stan Wayman/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Stephen Cooper/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Stephen Frink/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Stephen J. Krasemann/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Stephen J. Krasemann/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Stephen Krasemann/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Stephen Krasemann/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Steve Earley/Animals Animals
Stouffer Prod. Ltd./Animals Animals
Stuart Westmorland/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Sturgis McKeever/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Sven-Olof Limblad/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Sven-Olof Lindblad/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Ted Levin/Animals Animals
Tex Fuller/Animals Animals
THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE
Tim Davis/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Tom McHugh/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Tom McHugh/Steinhart Aquarium/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Tom McHugh/Taronga Zoo, Sydney/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Tom Walker/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
Vince Streano/ALLSTOCK, Inc.
William and Marcia Levy/Photo Researchers, Inc.
William M. Graham/Photo Researchers, Inc.
Zig Leszczynski/Animals Animals
Zig Leszczysnki/Animals Animals
Reference Works
Facts and articles drew on these reference titles:
- Amazing Animal Facts (1993)
- Amazing Worlds Amazing Bats (1991)
- Amazing Worlds Amazing Birds (1990)
- Amazing Worlds Amazing Birds of Prey (1992)
- Amazing Worlds Amazing Mammals (1990)
- Animal Atlas (1992)
- Dinosaurs and How They Lived (1991)
- Eye Opener Nighttime Animals (1992)
- Eyewitness Books Amphibian (1993)
- Eyewitness Books Fish (1990)
- Eyewitness Books Fossil (1990)
- Eyewitness Books Insect (1990)
- Eyewitness Books Mammal (1989)
- Eyewitness Books Reptile (1991)
- Eyewitness Books Skeleton (1988)
- Eyewitness Books Whale (1993)
- Eyewitness Explorers Mammals (1993)
- Eyewitness Guides Bird (1988)
- Eyewitness guides Cat (1991)
- Eyewitness Guides Dog (1991)
- Eyewitness Guides Elephant (1993)
- Eyewitness Guides Seashore (1989)
- Eyewitness Guides Shark (1992)
- Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Bears (1992)
- Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Snakes (1990)
- Eyewitness Juniors Amazing Spiders (1990)
- Eyewitness Science Ecology (1993)
- Great Dinosaur Atlas (1991)
- Look Closer Cave Life (1993)
- Look Closer Coral Reef (1992)
- Look Closer Life in a Desert (1992)
- Look Closer Meadow (1992)
- Look Closer Pond Life (1992)
- Look closer Rain Forest (1992)
- Look Closer River Life (1992)
- Look Closer Shoreline (1993)
- Look Closer Swamp Life (1993)
- Look Closer Tide Pool (1992)
- Look Closer Tree Life (1992)
- Look Closer Woodland (1993)
- Prehistoric Life (1991)
- Sharks and Other Creatures of the Deep (1991)
- T. Spotters Tyrannosaurus (1992)
- The Bird Atlas (1993)
- Visual Dictionary of Animals (1991)
- What's Inside Small Animals (1991)
- What's Inside? Animal Homes (1993)
The recreation
Asset restoration, text liberation, and the modern rebuild were done with care as a tribute to the original. Title set in Papyrus, in homage to the era. 🦁
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