Mammalia Collection (page 29)

Erinaceus europaeus, western European hedgehog
Plate 120 Hedgehog. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 2, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)

Zygolophodon atticus, mastodon
Front view of a skull of an extinct elephant from the Miocene of Pikermi, Greece. This fossil gave rise to the myth of the one-eyed giant, Cyclops

Megazostrodon skull
Specimen from the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic of Lesotho, Africa. Megazostrodon was thought to be a small, mouse-sized, nocturnal mammal and fed on insects

Hippopotamus amphibius, hippopotamus
Plate 67 The Hippopotamus. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 2, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)

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

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

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

Brit Museum Mammalia
The Mammalia Saloon : the natural history department will not be moved to South Kensington until 1881

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