Elephantoidea Collection (page 2)

Elephas maximus, Asiatic elephant
An Asiatic elephant, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass
African elephant viscera, approximately 3-4 days after death, showing abundance of blowfly larvae feeding on the dead tissues. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambezi Valley, Zambia

Primeval Man
Plate 32 from The World before the deluge by Guilliam Louis Figuier, 1891 depicting primeval man hunting animals of the time

Large mammal exhibition at The Natural History Museum at Tri
Former exhibition at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Photographed by Colin Keates

Womans head carved in mammoth ivory
Gravettian age 25, 000 - 30, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, Africa
Asian elephant above noted as E. Indicus, African elephant below noted as E. Africanus. Plate 39, engraving from Edinburgh Journal Natural History Vol. 1, 1835-39

A Tropical Bathing-Place
Plate 10 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Pleistocene Britain, Swanscombe waterhole
Diorama of Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years ago) waterhole in Swanscombe, Kent, Britain, with elephant, fallow deer, rhinoceros, bear, bison, and man living in open grassland. See image 405

Mammuthus primigenius, woolly mammoth

Pleistocene hunters
An illustration of a hominid hunting party with mammoths and rhinosauruses uring the Pleistocene period, 1.8 million years ago - 11, 000 years ago

Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex
Palaeontologists collecting the remains of a woolly mammoth and a straight-tusked elephant from a clay pit near Aveley, Essex in 1964

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, elephant foot yam
Plate 1110 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Guy Dollman with small-scale elephant model, 1927
Captain Guy Dollman (seated), Assistant Keeper of Zoology, designed this model scene for an innovative, full-sized display in one of the bays in the Central Hall which opened in July 1927

Elephants and cases, c. 1924
A photograph of the Natural History Museums Central Hall containing elephants

Piltdown cricket bat
Side view of sharpened piece of elephant thighbone, presented as a digging implement. Commonly referred to as the Piltdown cricket bat. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Upper Palaeolithic carvings 11 - 18, 000 years old
Top: Reindeer carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk from Montastruc, France. Bottom: Bone spear-thrower with reindeer carving from Laugerie Basse, France

Baby mammoth
Found in the permafrost in 1977, this baby mammoth Dima, estimated to be 6-7 months old at the time of its death, was displayed in London in 1979

Six million year old elephant excavated during Paleontology field work, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Abu Dhabi
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London, excavate an fossil elephant dating back six million years during an expedition to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Elephant rib
An elephant rib that is approximately 6 million years old. From Paleo field trip, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Human biology
Find out about the different kinds of memory we use, the Human biology gallery

Zygolophodon atticus, mastodon
Front view of a skull of an extinct elephant from the Miocene of Pikermi, Greece. This fossil gave rise to the myth of the one-eyed giant, Cyclops

Mammoth
Skeleton of the mammoth in the St. Petersburg Museum. from The World before the Deluge Figuier 1981. by Louis Figier

Ipswichian interglacial
Possible scene in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Ipswichian interglacial period (135, 000-70, 000 years before present) with hyena, elephant, hippopotamus, and lion

Pleistocene hunters, wider view
Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago - 11, 000 years ago) hunting party with mammoths and rhinoceros

Thames Valley in the Ipswichian Interglacial
Artists impression of the Thames Valley during the Ipswichian interglacial (135, 000 to 70, 000 years before present), with an elephant, hyaena, and hippopotami

Pleistocene glacial landscape
During the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago to 10, 000 years), ice covered much of Britain north of the Thames. Cold climate animals included the woolly mammoth (left) Mammuthus primigenius

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