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Sensory homunculusThis model shows what a mans body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its sensory perception
Mary Anning (1799-1847)Pioneer fossil collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset. Oil painting by an unknown artist, before 1842. Golden Cap is visible in the background. Held at the Natural History Museum, London
Motor homunculusThis model shows what a mans body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its movement
Hominid craniaL to R: Australopithecus africanus; Homo rudolfensis; H.erectus; H. heildebergensis; H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens. Arranged in chronological order these specimens (casts)
Australopithecus afarensis (AL 288-1) (Lucy)A cast of the partial skeleton (nicknamed Lucy) of Australopithecus afarensis found at the Hadar, North East Ethiopia in 1974 by Donald Johanson
Pterodactyls considered as marsupial batsPterodactylus crassirostris above P. brevirostris. Plate from Note on the Pterodactyle Tribe... Paper in The Zoologist, Vol 1, 1843 by Edward Newman
Australopithecus afarensis (AL 288-1) (Lucy)A partial skeleton (nicknamed Lucy) of Australopithecus afarensis found at the Hadar, North East Ethiopia in 1974 by Donald Johanson
Greyhound designDrawing 26 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)
Ground sloth droppings or coproliteGround sloth (Mylodon darwinii) fossilised droppings or coprolite, 13, 000 year old specimen from the Pleistocene, Chile
Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter RothschildRothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898
Ballyregan Bob, greyhoundPhotograph of Ballyregan Bob, the famous racing greyhound. Specimen on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring
Schistosoma spp. blood flukesBlood flukes mating. These parasites are found in man and other mammals. Snails are the intermediate hosts
Smilodon fatalis, sabre-toothed catSkeleton of an extinct sabre-toothed cat which lived about 15, 000 years ago in North America. It was about the size of a present day lion
Cladognathus sp. stag beetleA specimen of a large stag beetle from Asia. Stag beetles belong to the family (Lucanidae). Only male stag beetles have horns or antlers
Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)Carriage drawn by three zebra and a horse, driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937
Homo neanderthalensis in action at Swanscombe, UKAn illustration by Angus McBride showing a group of Homo neanderthalensis on the ancient banks of the river Thames in modern day Swanscombe, Kent
Megatherium, giant ground slothSkeleton of an extinct creature that roamed cool, dry, scrub and grasslands of South America 100, 000 years ago. On display at the Natural History Museum, London
Indian elephant, c. 1898Jung Pasha or Jung Pershad was one of four Asian elephants brought back to London Zoo by Bertie, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) following his tour of India during 1875-76
Accipiter striatus, sharp-shinned hawkPlate 374 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Mustela nivalis, least weaselPlate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Pipistrellus pipistrellus, common pipistrellePlate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Proconsul africanusAn illustration of the extinct primate, Proconsul africanus. Like Dendropithecus, they mostly lived in tropical forests in East Africa during the Miocene about 50 million years ago
Homo habilis in actionAn illustration by Angus McBride showing Homo habilis using tools to kill an Antelope. Homo habilis lived in East Africa between 1.6 and 2 million years ago
Physeter macrocephalus, Sperm whale toothSperm whale tooth
Sketch of an elephant, with descriptive notesOriginal watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c
Panthera leo senegalensis, West African LionPlate 45 (117) Le Lion du Senegal. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier
Pterodactyl and scimitar-toothed lion designDrawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881
Hominid reconstructions in chronological orderFrom left to right: Australopithecus, Early Homo erectus (Java Man), Late Homo erectus (Peking Man), Homo heidelbergensis (Rhodesian Man), Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon)
Hydromys chrysogaster, water ratPlate 1 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803
Mammoth skeleton drawingPlate 10 from Memoires de L Acadamie Imperiale des Sciences, Vol 5, 1815
Skull of a pigmy hippoModel of a pigmy hippo skull from Cyprus
Tooth from a woolly mammothTooth from an extinct woolly mammoth, specimen from the Natural History Museum, London
Petaurus breviceps ariel, sugar gliderPetaurus breviceps ariel (Gould, 1849) sugar glider. BMNH 1842.5.26.1, female skin & skull, lectotype photographed next to specimen BMNH 1855.12.24.308 paralectotype skin
Australopithecus afarensisIllustration by Maurice Wilson of extinct African hominids (Australopithecus afarensis) living 3-4 million years ago. They walked upright, although they retained the ability to climb trees
Pedigree of ManTab XV from Ernst Haeckel (1879) The Evolution of man: a popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny, London: Kegan Paul, 2 v: ill
Homo heidelbergensis in actionA reconstructed scene by Angus McBride showing Homo erectus killing an elephant. Homo heidelbergensis lived for about 1.5 million years and is believed to have used sophisticated tools
Great Irish Elk, MegatheriumOriginal artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins
Zoological gardens by B. Waterhouse HawkinsOriginal artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins
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
Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The NatuStuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted