Palaeontology Collection (page 4)

Palaeontology Response Card
The Palaeontology response card that was used in the Natural History Museum during the 1960s. Enquirers who had send in bones of sheep or horses thinking that they were fossils

Palaeontology Wing of The Natural History Museum
An extension to The Natural History Museum opened on 24 May 1977

Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

The Palaeontology Wing at The Natural History Museum, London
The Palaeontology wing extending to the east of the main Museum frontage, was opened in May 1977 it provides 10, 000 square meters of floor area over seven floors for the study

Ichthyosaur, Stenopterygius quadriscissus (Quenstedt) close-
This Ichthyosaur has been preserved with the broken-up skeletons of the unborn young inside. A fourth may have just been born - its skeleton can be seen below her tail

Harpagodes wrightii, gastropod
A Jurassic gastropod originating from Gloucestershire, England

Searching for dinosaur fossils, Tendaguru, 1924
A team of scientists from the British Museum of Natural History travelled to Tendaguru, Tanganyika territory, Tanzania after the end of World War One in order to locate and collect dinosaur fossils

View of Middle Pleistocene site of Bilzingsleben, Germany
Showing the accumulation of mammal bones and artifacts. Lower Palaeolithic, 400, 000 years old. Photo by Chris Stringer

Hepaticites arcuatus
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Hylomous lyelli
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Excavating at Charmouth
A team of palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum excavating an Ichthyosaur at Charmouth beach. December 2004

Baryonyx laboratory work, 1983
Palaeontologists working on the dinosaur, Baryonyx walkeri. Using a rotary diamond-edged dental saw to groove hard rock around a dinosaur vertebrae

Excavations, Abu Dhabi
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London, excavate an fossil elephant dating back six million years during an expedition to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Pakistan
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London engage in excavations in Pakistan in search for fossil mammals dating back one million years

Fossil crocodile jaw
Six million year old section of fossilised crocodile jaw found in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Scale in mms

Six million year carnivore jaw?
Reconstructed six million year old jaw of an extinct mammal originating from Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Dinosaur bones in the rock
From a Palaeontology field trip in Tangjia He valley, China

Neanderthal stone tools
Tools believed to have once belonged to Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis) discovered at Gorhams cave, Gibraltar

6 million year old fossils
Searching for 6 million year old fossils, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Elephant rib
An elephant rib that is approximately 6 million years old. From Paleo field trip, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Dinosaur vertebrae
From a Palaeontology field trip in Niger, West Africa

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

CUVIER, Georges (1769-1832). French zoologist. Etching. Private Collection

Giant Elephant / La Nature
The skeleton of the giant elephant of Durfort on display in the new gallery of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, Paris, France

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