Lepidosauria Collection (page 5)

Coracias temminckii, purple-winged roller
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Bardick Snake
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Coluber laticaudatus, colubrine amphibious sea snake
Ff. 170. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated coluber laticaudatus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Torvosaurus claw
A fossil claw once belonging to the dinosaur, Torvosaurus whose name means savage lizard. It was a carnivore which lived during the upper Jurassic period. Its fossils have been found in Colorado, USA

Chamaeleo calyptratus, veiled chameleon
A dried (stuffed) specimen of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) native to South West Arabia, in the vecinity of the Yemen and Saudi Arabia borderline

Varanus komodoensis, Komodo dragon
Specimen of a Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard in the world on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Hydra
Illustration of the Hydra, a Greek mythical beast that had seven serpent heads. Plate 82 from Thesaurus, Vol 3, by Albertus Seba, 1758

Desert lizard, Abu Dhabi
A desert lizard sitting on a bush photographed in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Raphidia sp. snakefly
Snakeflies are so called because of their ability to raise their long necks above the rest of their body. They grow to approximately 20mms long and feed on small insects such as aphids

Tangara chilensis, paradise tanager and snake
Hand coloured engraving, by George Edwards (1694- 1773), 1759. Paper size: 285 x 120 mm. Original artwork held by the Natural History Museum

Sea-serpent attacking a vessel
Fig 67 from Mythical Monsters, 1886 by Charles Gould

Dendroaspis angusticeps, green mamba
Photograph of the skull of a green mamba, showing the snakes upper jaw fangs

Bogus fossil lizard
GIWL108 (Geologisches Institut, Universit� urzburg Lugensteine number 108). This image shows a bogus fossil lizard (or salamander) eating an insect. Photographed by Paul Taylor

Cheirotherium
Arid desert of Triassic Britain with imagined reconstructions of Cheirotherium ( hand-beast ), a labyrinthodont reptile, whose prints are common in Triassic rocks but no remains have been found

Quartz box and carved lizard
An ornamental box set with different quartz stones (silicon dioxide) including a large central citrine together with a carved lizard in cat s-eye quartz

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