Odd Toed Ungulate Collection

Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter Rothschild
Rothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898

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

Anoplotherium commune & gracile, Palaeotherium
Sheet 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

Tooth from Coelodonta antiquitatis, woolly rhinoceros
This woolly rhino tooth, together with two others were found in 1668 at Chartham, near Canterbury in Kent by natural historian John Somner

Occipital bone of horse skull (Arab racing pony, NHM reference NHMADAR.H40)

Nathan Natty, 1st Baron Rothschild
Liberal politician, banker, philanthropist and father of Walter Rothschild, he built what became the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

The comparative sizes of extinct animals
Printed poster, unknown author

Reindeer antler from Neschers
This reindeer antler from Neschers in France is engraved with a stylised horse. It was created by early humans and found between 1830 and 1848. Date: 1830

Elephant skulls
Including Elasmotherium sibircum (giant rhinoceros). Illustration from Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupcdes, by Georges Cuvier, first published in 1812

Horse-head engraved on bone
Late Pleistocene wild horses head engraved on the right fourth metatarsal bone of a horse, specimen (NHM 38745). Found among horse remains from the Late Magdalenian site of Roc du Courbet, Bruniquel

Rhinoceros unicornis, Indian Rhinoceros
Illustration from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection, c.1850 Date: circa 1850

Horses being used to transport a Basking shark from Brighton
Hand-drawn graphite and watercolour wash depicting the horses used to transport a Basking shark from North Audley Street, Brighton to London on a carriage pulled by 12 horses. 10th Dec 1812

Phiolophus vulpiceps. Skull of a dawn horse found in Harwich

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

Rhinoceros sondaicus, javan rhinoceros skull from sunderabund, Bengal

Bringing in a prisoner illustration (p.84) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & rhinoceros
Plate 221 from Capter 11 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

Hyracotherium skull
Skull, 13 cm long, from the London Clay, Harwich, Essex. Hyracotherium, is the earliest known horse from the late Palaeocene and early Eocene of North America and Europe

Interglacial Landscape
Artists impression of England during a Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years before present) interglacial period. Rhinoceros feed on the sparse vegetation in the distance

Equus caballus gomelini, tarpan
The Tarpan a wild horse, native of Russia, primaeval bay stock. Plate on page opposite page 160. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol

Hyracotherium skeleton
Modelled from various sources. Hyracotherium is the earliest known horse from the late Palaeocene and early Eocene of North America and Europe. Frame is 820mm wide

Equus caballus, horse
Skull belonging to a horse (Equus caballus) from the Zoology collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Stone age horse
A plastic replica of amber stone age horse carving. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule fig. 23

Equus sp. zebra
Plate 222 from Capter 12 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

Upper premolar of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis
Upper premolar of an exinct rhino found during the Boxgrove excavation. Boxgrove is a Middle Pleistocene site in West Sussex, England

Coelodonta antiquitatis, woolly rhinoceros
Fossil horn specimen from the extinct woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)

Equus burchelli, Burchells zebra
The striped skin of a stuffed Burchells zebra specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Gyrostigma rhinocerontis, rhinoceros stomach botfly
A rhinoceros stomach botfly, collected from Natal collected in October 1995

Mesohippus

Lower cheek teeth of fossil horse
Shown here are the lower cheek teeth of the extinxt horse, Equus. Equus was a high-crowned grazing species and lived about 200, 000 years ago

Jaw of Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, the narrow-nosed rhinocer
Lower jaw of a narrow-nosed rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus dating back to the Pleistocene, 1.8 million years to 10, 000 years ago. This specimen was unearthed in Ilford, Essex, England

Equus quagga, quagga
One of the last remaining quagga in captivity at London Zoo. Relative of the horse and zebra which lived in the African plains, was hunted to extinction during the end of the 19th century

Rhinoceros sp. rhinoceros
Painting, oil on canvas, by James Parsons (1705-1770), 1739. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum at Tring, photographed in 1899
Viewed from Park Street, Tring. Lord Rothschild bequeathed his entire museum to the Trustees of the British Museum provided that it became an annexe of the Museum at South Kensington

Woolly rhinoceros skull

Equus sp. horse
Upper molar tooth from a species of the Equus genus. Item E. 602 of the animal fossil specimens found at Piltdown, Sussex, 1912-15, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Great paleotherium
Drawing 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

Buceros rhinoceros, rhinoceros hornbill skull
Back view of a skull of the rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), from the Sloane collection

Chilian spurs, stirrup illustration (p.290) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, John Murray illustrated edition, 1890

Gyrostigma rhinocerontis, botfly maggot
A adult rhino botfly maggot (Gyrostigma rhinocerontis) extracted from a white rhino, Merseyside. Photographed by Martin Hall

Tibetan horse minder
A young Tibetan horse minder, Urulung, Tibet

Equus zebra, zebra
Photograph of a zebra skin specimen, collection number Z 1993.149

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