竜

driving away moles by hitting the ground with straw bundles prepared by children (esp. as an event on Koshōgatsu)

Buddhism

the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)

well-matched contest; fight between a dragon and a tiger

feathered dinosaurs

Buddhism

Dragon King Kulika; manifestation of Acala in the form of a flame-wreathed dragon wrapped around and swallowing the tip of an upright sword

Astronomy

Carina (constellation); the Keel

star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata)

short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae spp.); spiny anteater

Proverb

out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den

duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur

(Royal) light cavalry

(game of) whack-a-mole; whac-a-mole

Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora)

tapestry turban (species of turban shell, Turbo petholatus)

Eupelycosauria (suborder of pelycosaurs)

Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura)

Japanese mole (Mogera wogura); Temminck's mole

Sado mole (Mogera tokudae); Tokuda's mole

Senkaku mole (Mogera uchidai); Ryukyu mole

eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus); common mole

Townsend's mole (Scapanus townsendii)

European mole (Talpa europaea); common mole; northern mole

Kloss's mole (Euroscaptor klossi)

long-nosed mole (Euroscaptor longirostris)