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Restorations of animals from Tertiary periodOriginal artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins
The Wolf by Edward DonovanThe Wolf, in Edward Donovans The Natural History of British Quadrupeds Volume 1. Held in the Library and Archives
Guy (1946-1978), a western lowland gorillaGuy the gorilla was one of London Zoos best-loved residents. After his death, he lived on as a display and research specimen at the Natural History Museum
Connochaetes taurinus, Blue wildebeestwatercolour by William Cornwallis Harris. Entitled Catoblepas gorgon, Brindled Gnoo
Tragelaphus strepsiceros, Greater kuduWatercolour by William Cornwallis Harris. Entitled Strepsiceros capensis, Koodoo
Hunting the Giraffe by William C HarrisColour lithograph c. 1836 Date: circa 1836
Giant Ground Sloth, Natural History MuseumPhotograph of a Skeleton of the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium Americanum). July 1902. Archive ref: PH/173/244 Date: 1902
Megatherium and GlyptodonSheet 5 of a series of posters by Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862 showing Megatherium and Glyptodon. Date: circa 1862
Anoplotherium commune & gracile, PalaeotheriumSheet 4 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862. This collection of mammals could be found during the Eocene epoch some 50 million years ago
Cheetah family - Mother Cheetah with her 6 cubs (Acinonyx jubatus). Ndutu - Ngorongoro - Tanzania - Africa
Common Raccoon - adult female, begging for food (Procyon lotor). Zoo in Ekaterinburg, Urals, Russia
Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The NatuStuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted
Prionailurus planiceps, flat-headed catFelis planiceps. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)
Uintatherium skullSkull measures 740 mm left to right. Uintatherium, a horned ungulate from the mid Eocene of western U.S.A, stood about 1.6m at the shoulder
Salix caprea, goat willow treeAn illustrative plate of goat willow foliage and catkins from the Botany Library Plate Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London
Talpa europaea, European molePlate 123 Common Mole. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 3, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)
Giant Otter - pups Venezuela (Pteronura brasiliensis )
Domestic female Reindeer with newborn calf (Rangifer tarandus). forest near river Taz; spring; North Tumen regon, Siberia, Russia
Woolly MammothIllustration of a woolly mammoth in a snowy landscape
Varecia variegata, ruffed lemurLS Plate 74 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856
Kita a Norwegian elkhound, photographed by Harry Taylor
22, 000 - 30, 000 years old Venus figuresLeft to right. a) In fired clay from Moravia. b) In mammoth ivory from France. The Willendorf Venus c) In limestone from Austria. d) In mammoth ivory from Ukraine
Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years oldL-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory
Babyrousa babyrussa, babirusaPlate 106 from the Loten Collection (1754-57), a painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere (1722-c. 1781)
Lesser false vampire bat, Megaderma spasma. Vespertilio spasma Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hermann Jakob Tyroff from Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers Animal Illustrations after
Group of Kangaroos by Gambier BoltonGroup of Kangaroos photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 553, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring
Geological Gallery Natural History Museum 1892Photograph of the Geological Gallery, with American mastodon in the foreground. July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/243 Date: 1892
Mammoth and HyaenaSheet 6 of a series of posters by Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862 showing Mammoth elephas primigenius, Hyaena spelaea, Hippopotamus major, Ursus spelaeus & Machairodus latidens. Date: circa 1862
George the elephant, 1935Two attendants brush down the African elephant George in the Central Hall in one of several shots of Museum staff taken by Weekly Illustrated photographers for an article that appeared in February
Panthera tigris, tigerFelis tigris. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf
A Malayan forest, with its characteristic birdsPlate 9 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Mesoplodon bidens, Sowerbys beaked whalePlate 12 The Diodon of Sowerby. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol
Physeter catodon and Hyperoodon ampullatusSperm whale and northern bottlenose whale. Plate 45 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21
Delphinus delphis, short-beaked common dolphinPlate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Mammal and Whale GalleryModels of an Asiatic elephant (left) and an African elephant (right), on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24) at the Natural History Museum, London
Loxodonta africana, African elephantA close-up of an African elephant adult male bull, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London
Gorilla gorilla gorilla, western lowland gorilla
Plecotus sp. long-eared batA long-eared bat in flight (a microbat belonging to the Vespertilionidae family of vesper or evening bats). Photograph published in Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002
Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist
African elephant in Central Hall, February 1910Photographed in 1910 just three years after his arrival, the African elephant later nicknamed George, was obtained from the taxidermists Rowland Ward Ltd
The Natural History Museum at TringGallery 3 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, the sister museum of the Natural History Museum, London
Wild Common Hamster - Feeding in a granary (Cricetus cricetus L.). Summer, Middle Ural Mountains, Russia
Eulemur macaco, black lemurPlate 217 from Capter 7 of Gleanings of Natural History Vol. 5 by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764. Entitled The Black Maucauco
Sus moupinensis, wild hogPlate 80 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)
Lynx sp. lynxStuffed specimen from the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London
Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919The Guide Lecturer, John Henry Leonard, took this shot of two girls inspecting a primitive elephant or mastodon (Mammut americanus), in December 1919
A ZebraA highly-detailed pencil drawing of a Zebra by Raymond Sheppard
Mastodon / Prehistoric USA family of Mastodon, roaming the area of modern-day Manhattan Island. Bones of this large forerunner of the modern-day elephant have been found in this region