Extinct Collection (page 9)

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

Bumpy Lunar Landscape
The craters of extinct volcanoes testify to the violent past of the Moon. Date: circa 1880

Quagga, (Equus quagga quagga), an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra. 1814

Dinosaur / Teleosaurus
A TELEOSAURUS (foreground) and a HYLAEOSAURUS of the Jurassic era

Aepyornis Ingens Moa
An artists impression of how aepyornis ingens, a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked

Irish Elk - Megaloceros
or Irish Elk A Diluvian ancestor of the Irish deer, noted for the enormous size of its antlers

Cranium of Paranthropus boisei, named Dear Boy. 1, 8
Reproduction of a Cranium of Paranthropus boisei, named Dear Boy. 1, 8 million years. From Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain

Animals at a French Zoo - Persian deer - deer gazing out through bars. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide 15

Fossils in Colorado
Huge fossil bones belonging to gigantic antediluvan animals found in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA. Date: 1878

Scouts / Dinosaur Fossil
There before the Scouts eyes was the realisation of the Professors dream - the fossil of the lost dinosaur. Date: 1915

Extinct / Megatherium
photo of model of Megatherium (source not indicated)

Dinosaurs, Styracosaurus
Dinosaurs. Styracosaurus, smaller than Triceratops. Reconstructed models

Children playing on a Dinosaur Model
Children play on a model of a dinosaur at the Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. Date: 1987

Dinosaurs, Triceratops
Dinosaurs. Triceratops, three-horned dinosaurs protected by a bony neck-frill. Reconstructed models

Original art, Crystal Palace extinct animals
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

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

Sketch by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Prosqualodon davidi, skull cast
Cast of the cranium of Prosqualodon davidi from the early Miocene of Tasmania, Australia (original skull no longer exists)

Dorsal & Ventral Isotelus platycephalus
Syntype (?Holotype by monotypy) of Asaphus, now Isotelus platycephalus (Stokes, 1824) Ordovician, Black River Group; St Josephs Island, Lake Huron, Ontario Bigsby Colln. Date: 1824

Dr Leachs 139 great auk egg
Dr Leachs 139 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

Iguanodon tooth
Original Iguanodon tooth found by Dr. and Mrs. Mantell. Iguanodon was a large plant eater with cheek teeth for grinding vegetation and hoof-like claws

Dodo skeleton, Raphus cucullatus
The dodo is an icon of extinction, one of the first widely acknowledged cases of a species being wiped out by humans. There are so few complete dodo skeletons that we may never know exactly what they

Blastoidea; extinct stemmed echinoderm
Coloured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904

Walter Rothschilds Necropsittacus borbonicus
Plate 8, a watercolour painting on paper by Henrik Gronvold from Walter Rothschilds Extinct Birds (1907). Art original 56 x 78 cm. Date: 1907

Cystoidea; extinct stalked echinoderm
Coloured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904

Hypsilophodon skull
Hypsilophodons narrow mouth would have been suitable for picking out soft shoots and leaves. Narrow mouths allow animals to select food with more care. This specimen lived 125 million years ago

Daspletosaurus teeth
Fossil teeth from the Daspletosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur closely related to, but not as big as, the Tyrannosaurus

Hypsilophodon foot
Hypsilophodons upper foot bones were long and the lower foot thin and flexible, very like todays running birds. This specimen which was discovered in England dates back 125 million years to

Iguanodon femur
A fossil femur, or thigh bone that once belong to the bipedal herbivorous dinosaur, Iguanodon. This specimen shows marks where muscles were once attached to the bone

A new Wealden dragon - remains of an extinct animal
Remains of an extinct animal found in the Isle of Wight. Engraving from the Illustrated London News showing a selection of dinosaur bones discovered in the Isle of Wight by the Rev. W. Fox

Tasmanian Tiger on display, Australia
Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) on display (probably stuffed), in a garden in Australia. The species is believed to be extinct. Date: circa 1910

White dodo and red-breasted goose.. Handcolored lithograph by J. Smit from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 6, 1868

Fossil skeletons of great Irish deer and woolly mammoth.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich

Fossil skeletons of extinct bat, giraffid, mastodon and horse.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber

Fossil skeletons of fish, shell, bird and monkey.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Fossils of extinct celaphopod, crustacean, turtle and shark.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber

Fossil of extinct tubeworm, dragonfly, lobster and fish.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich

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