Extinct Collection (page 8)

Ishtar Gate. 4th century BC. Babylon
Ishtar Gate. The eight gate of the inner wall of Babylon. Built in 575 BC by order to Nebuchadnezzar II. Reconstructed in 1930. Detail. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Skull of Paranthropus aethiopicus with prominent sagittal crest. Pliocene. Located in Lomekwi, Kenya. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom

The comparative sizes of extinct animals
Printed poster, unknown author

Pen & ink sketch, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Dicynodon, Labyrinthodon, Rhynchosaurus
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Male St Helena giant earwig
Named in 1798 by the Danish zoologist Fabricus, Labidura herculeanais theworlds longest earwig speciesreaching up to 78mm in length including its forceps. Date: 1798

Spallanzanis great auk egg
Spallanzanis great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Tristrams great auk egg
Tristrams great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Walter Rothschilds great auk egg
Walter Rothschilds great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Lord Lilfords great auk egg
Lord Lilfords great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. Also known as the Royal College of Surgeons egg No.6 The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle

Great auk, Pinguinus impennis
The great auk, Pinguinus impennis, is one of the most powerful symbols of the damage humans can cause. The species was driven extinct as a result of centuries of intense human exploitation

Triceratops horn
Triceratops which lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 67 to 65 million years ago had three horns. It grew up to 9 metres in length and fossils have been discovered in USA

Megalosaurus tooth
A typical carnosaur tooth belonging to Megalosaurus. It is curved in shape, pointing backwards and has sharp, serrated edges for cutting meat. The Megalosaurus lived during the Middle Jurassic period

Extinct crinoids, ammonites and squid.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Skeleton of the Megatherium, and Mastodon giganteus, or the American mastodon, Mammut americanum.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A

Fossils of extinct encephalopod ammonites.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr

Fossils of extinct bivalves.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr

Falkland Island Aguara-dog, Dusicyon australis. Extinct around 1870.. Handcolored engraving on steel by William Lizars from a drawing by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith from Sir William Jardines

Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus communis (fish lizard) and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Hyracotherium or Eohippus, the dawn horse, of the Tertiary to Eocene.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916

Giant Hyrax, Riesenklippdachs, extinct ancestor of the Rock or Cape Hyrax (Procavia capensis).. Colour printed (chromolithograph)

Palaeomastodon, believed to be the ancestors of elephants or mastodons.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World

Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, large, flightless bird that became extinct in the mid-19th century.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric

Ammonites, extinct group of marine animals belonging to the cephalopod subclass Ammonoidea.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World

Diplodocus is a genus of extinct diplodocid sauropod dinosaur of the Late Jurassic.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916

Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise, Cylindraspis vosmaeri, Testudo Indica Vosmaer.. Recently extinct species of tortoise. Last recorded in 1800 in Mauritius

Helicoprion with tooth whorl and Xenacanthus, prehistoric shark.. Both became extinct in the Triassic. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F

Megaladapis madagascariensis, Koala lemur, extinct species of giant lemur.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F

Dodo, ostrich and cassowary.. Dodo, Raptus cucullatus (extinct), ostrich, Struthio camelus, and cassowary, Casuarius casuarius (vulnerable). Steel engraving by F

Iguanodon bernissartensis, extinct ground-dwelling herbivore of the Jurassic.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F

Franklin tree, Franklinia alatamaha, extinct in the wild.. Handcolored stipple copperplate engraving by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launays Herbier General

City, Aden, Yemen. Built in the Crater of an Extinct Volcano Date: 1900s

DINOSAUR Skeleton - Gigantosaurus. Argentina

Discovery of the Adams mammoth, 1799
Discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia. A local chief spotted the creature, encased in transparent ice, on the banks of the river Lena in 1799

Parasaurolophus skull
A fossil skull belonging to the dinosaur Parasaurolophus on display at the Natural History Museum, London. This large crested dinosaur lived around 70 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous

The Country of the Iguanodon
Frontispiece by John Martin from The Wonders of Geology, Volume 1, 1857 by Gideon Mantell (1790-1852). Gideon Mantell was a palaeontologist who discovered Iguanodon fossils in England

Microraptor skeleton
The Microraptor was unique in having feathers. It has only been found in China and dates back to the Lower Cretaceous, 125 to 122 million years ago. It grew to around half a metre in length

Iguanodon skeleton
An illustration of an Iguanodon, a herbivorous dinosaur whose fossil remains have been in many parts of the world making it one of the most successful of all dinosaur species

Oviraptor skeleton
This dinosaur is belived to have been an egg thief. It lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 85 to 75 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Mongolia. Illustration by Jo Konopelko

Stegosaurus skeleton
A herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Upper Jurassic period, 155 to 144 million years ago. It has distinctive large plates which run from its neck to its tail. Illustration by Jo Konopelko

Gallimimus skeleton
An omnivorous dinosaur from Mongolia which lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 74 to 70 million years ago It grew up to 6 metres in length making it the largest ornithomimid yet

Macropoma lewesiensis, an extinct coelacanth fish
Restoration of one of the last coelacanth fishes (Macropoma lewesiensis). It lived in the clear water chalk seas of sourthern England 85 mya, and grew to about 60 cm in length

Brachiosaur neck vertebra
A specimen of a neck vertebra that once belonged to a dinosaur from the Brachiosauridae family. This family of dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous period

Carnotaurus
This was a carnivore that lived during the Lower Cretaceous period, around 70 million years ago. Fossil evidence in the unusual form of skin has been discovered in Argentina

Pachycephalosaurus skull
A fossil skull that once belonged to the dinosaur, Pachycephalosaurus. It features a huge dome of bone which may have protected the brain. The skull is also covered in decorative bony studs

Maiasaura with nest of eggs and hatchlings
An animated model of the dinosaur Miasaura, created by Kokoro Ltd. for the Natural History Museum, London. This dinosaur whose name meand good mother lizard lived during the Upper Cretaceous 60-85 mya

Euoplocephalus
A model of Euoplocephalus, one of the armoured plated dinosaurs from the family Ankylosauria. It lived during the Upper Cretaceous period 76 to 70 million years ago

Dinosaur footprints at Swanage
Fossilised footprint of a dinosaur dating back to around 135 million years ago from a Purbeck Stone quarry near Swanage, Dorset, UK. Scientists believe that they may have belonged to the Iguanodon

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