Mammal Collection (page 51)

Odontoceti (suborder), toothed whale
Sailors throwing barrels from a ship to conciliate two whales. Page 217 from Curious Creatures in Zoology (1890) by John Ashton

Three unicorns
Monoceros Unicornu and Caprinonq Marinq. Tab 10 from Beschriving Van de Natuur der Vier-voetige Dieren, 1660 by I. Johnston

Sea-horse
Page 234 from Curious Creatures in Zoology, 1890 by John Ashton

Megatherium skeleton
Plate 72 from Le Regne Animal Vol 2 by Georges Cuvier

Modern Homo sapiens. A range of human remains (cranial and p
Cranium fragments belonging to Modern Homo sapiens dating back 12, 000 years ago discovered at Goughs Cave, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

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

Pteropus loochoensis, Okinawa flying fox
A rare specimen of an Okinawa flying fox skin from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Modern Homo sapiens cranium (Skhul V)
A front view of a cast of Skhul V discovered in 1932 on Mount Carmel, Israel. The original specimen is held at Harvards Peabody Museum. This specimen dates between 80, 000 and 100, 000 years old

Australopithecus africanus, the Taung child
A cast of a skull of Australopithecus africanus from Taung, Cape Province, South Africa. The original skull, thought to be of a child aged between 3-4 was discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart

Hominid Fossil Collection
A sellection of items from the anthropologigical collections at the Natural History Museum, London

Convallaria polygonatum, solomons seal root
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Diceros bicornis, horn of a black rhinoceros
A photograph of a black rhinoceros horn specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Homo erectus cranium (Trinil 2)
A cranium (cast) belonging to Homo erectus discovered at Trinil near to the River Solo, Java, Indonesia by Eugene Dubois in 1891

Tibouchina clavata, bears ear
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Melastoma quadrangularis

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

Alouatta seniculus, red howler monkey
Portrait of a red howler monkey, native to the forests in various regions across South America. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Carved nephrite
A tiki from New Zealand (left), a seal from British Colombia, and a Chinese vase all carved from nephrite. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Chrysoberyl cats eyes
Two stones of Chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide), illustrating the similarity the gemstone has with a cats eye

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

Baleen whale
A baleen whale splashes out of the water on a rocky coastline while black-headed gulls flock around

Studies of Polar Bears
Pencil studies of Polar Bears by Raymond Sheppard

Pencil sketch of a Zebra (Equus quagga) at London Zoo

Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) - a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in central Africa

An Impala. Pastel study by Raymond Sheppard

Two Pumas in a valley
Pumas standing and lying on a some rocks at the base of a valley. Pastel drawing by Raymond Sheppard

THE MOLE
The European mole, Talpa Europea

Weasel in a fir tree
A weasel on the branch of fir tree

Bewick / Sea Otter
(enhydra lutris) This is the smallest marine mammal and is found mostly in North America

Bewick / Walrus
(odobenus rosmarus) Bewick gives the alternative name of sea-horse but he admits it is a mammal, not a fish

A hippopotamus with its young, at the waterside

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