Mammalia Collection (page 7)

Skull cups and bone fragments, Goughs Cave
Skull cups identified among human remains from Goughs Cave, Somerset. At around 14, 700 years old, the skull cups are the oldest directly dated examples in the world

Ursus maritimus, Polar bear
Part of the collection amassed by Walter Rothschild in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Embalmed whale on tour in England, 1931
A 45 foot whale, the largest ever seen in England, which weighs more than 20 tons, is on a tour of England. It was caught off the coast of Norway and embalmed by Mr

Raised beaches, Patagonis
Illustration (p.182) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858-1929)
Portrait of Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas, a British zoologist. Painting, oil on canvas, by J. Ernest Braun, 1904. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

Homeward Bound
Illustration (p.531) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Fox
An illustration (Plate 7, Mammals) from the Zoology of the Beagle

Bandages from a calf mummy

Toxodon Platensis, found at Sadillo
Illustration (p.134) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Paranthropus robustus cranium (SK 48)
A cast of the cranium belonging to an adult female Paranthropus robustus discovered at Swartkrans, South Africa by Dr. Robert Broom and J.T. Robinson. P. robustus lived around 1.5 million years ago

Whales and their relatives
Poster advertising Whales and their relatives exhibition which opened in 1984

Cynognathus crateronotus
A fossil skull that belonged to the extinct mammal-like reptile, Cynognathus. It lived during the Triassic period, 245 to 208 million years ago. Typical length of entire creature 1.8 metres

Caloprymnus campestris, Desert rat-kangaroo
The Desert-rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) is an extinct marsupial that lived in Australia. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2010

Phiolophus vulpiceps. Skull of a dawn horse found in Harwich

Cervus unicolor brookei
Photograph of BM(NH) 1.3.13.1 Cervus unicolor brookei, Sarawak

Rodent
An illustration (Plate 21, Mammals) from the Zoology of the Beagle

Sus scrofa, European wild boar
European wild boar piglets. Stuffed specimens on display in Gallery 5 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

The largest mammoth tusk, 1931
A mammoth tusk from Siberia, nearly 14 feet long, just presented to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, is believed to be the largest yet known. It is the gift from the Rowland Ward Trustees

Skull cup found at Goughs Cave
A skull cup identified among human remains from Goughs Cave, Somerset. At around 14, 700 years old, the skull cups are the oldest directly dated examples in the world

Megaloceros, Irish elk
Also known as Irish elk, Megaloceros lived across Europe and western Asia until it became extinct about 8, 000 years ago

Fossil tooth of horse, from Bahia Blanca
Illustration (p.138) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Exhibition of a giraffe to the public
A printed poster advertising the last week of the magnificent living Giraffe or camelopardalis with its Nubian attendant

Blue Whale Hall
View of Blue Whale Hall, Mammal Gallery, Gallery 24, Life Galleries at The Natural History Museum, London

Australopithecus sp. hip bone
The hip bone (Os coxae) of Australopithecus from Sterkfontein, South Africa

Homo habilis cranium & mandible fragment casts
Casts of fragments mandible and cranium fragments of a Homo habilis discovered at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania dating back to between 1.85 million years ago to 1.6 million years ago

Lutreolina crassicaudata, thick-tailed opossum
Illustration of Lutreolina crassicaudata, thick-tailed opossum

Trachypithecus cristatus, silver leaf monkey. Males skull. Catalogue reference 1909.4.1.5

Rhinoceros sondaicus, javan rhinoceros skull from sunderabund, Bengal

Boxgrove excavation site
A view of the archaeological excavation site at Boxgrove, West Sussex, UK. The site yielded a very significant fossil find, a tibia and incisors believe to have belonged to a 500

Bat
An illustration (Plate 1, Mammals) from the Zoology of the Beagle

Australopithecus sp. thigh & hip bone

Beached whales alive in a Cornish village, 1932
The people of Perranporth, a village not far from Newquay, Cornwall, have just had the surprise of their lives. Eight whales have been found on the beach washed up during a gale

Bubalus bubalis, Indian water buffalo
These are the largest Indian water buffalo horns ever recorded, each almost 2 metres long

Skin from a Ground sloth
This rare sloth skin, one of the best examples of its kind, was found in a cave in Chile in the early 1900 s

Mylodon
Illustration (p.140) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Illustration of a seal intestine
Drawing of a seal intestine by Edward Wilson. Drawn during the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole 1910-1913

Fake rodent skeleton
Sent to the Museum by amateur palaeontologist Reverend C Green in 1843. The skeleton had not been dug out of the ground whole and bones belonged to different individuals

The Modern Mrs Jonah
Eric the Whale at Olympia. Eric, the huge 65-ton whale which arrived at Olympia yesterday from America, was on view there this morning for the first time

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