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Reptiles Collection (page 3)

Background imageReptiles Collection: Three frogs learning how to swim on a greetings postcard

Three frogs learning how to swim on a greetings postcard -- two of them are reading the instruction manual while another one teaches them. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Two frogs in bed on a greetings postcard

Two frogs in bed on a greetings postcard -- breakfast in bed charged extra. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frog playing a mandolin on a French postcard

Frog playing a mandolin on a French postcard
Frog dressed in female clothing playing a mandolin or banjo on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Four frogs playing and singing on a greetings postcard

Four frogs playing and singing on a greetings postcard
Four frogs playing the violin, conducting and singing on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Three frogs playing music on an April Fool postcard

Three frogs playing music on an April Fool postcard
Three frogs playing musical instruments on a French April Fool postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Malagasy Giant Hognose Snake

Malagasy Giant Hognose Snake (Leioheterodon madagascariensis)

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frog at a writing desk on a New Year card

Frog at a writing desk on a New Year card
Frog standing at a writing desk on a New Year card, with seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frogs and grasshopper on a New Year card

Frogs and grasshopper on a New Year card
Four frogs and a grasshopper on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Two frogs fighting over a snail on a Christmas card

Two frogs fighting over a snail on a Christmas card -- Heads I win, tails you lose. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Snake with a milk bottle

Snake with a milk bottle
Snake with an Express Dairies milk bottle. Date: circa 1950s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Boutons skink Snake-eyed skink

Boutons skink Snake-eyed skink adult sunbathes on a black basalt rock which holes he uses for hiding and safe moving around East shore of Ilot Gabriel island endemic for Mascarenes

Background imageReptiles Collection: Alice in Wonderland, Bill the Lizard

Alice in Wonderland, Bill the Lizard pops out of the chimney after a kick from Alice. Date: early 20th century

Background imageReptiles Collection: Woman with alligator, Chipperfields Circus

Woman with alligator, Chipperfields Circus
Woman with an alligator in a cage, a Chipperfields Circus act. Date: circa 1964

Background imageReptiles Collection: Reptile House, St Louis Zoo, Missouri, USA

Reptile House, St Louis Zoo, Missouri, USA
Scene inside the Reptile House, St Louis Zoo, Missouri, USA. Date: circa 1925

Background imageReptiles Collection: Common Wonder / Frog-eyed Gecko

Common Wonder / Frog-eyed Gecko (Teratoscincus scincus). Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Background imageReptiles Collection: A Reticulated Python swims from a small freshwater-stream

A Reticulated Python swims from a small freshwater-stream into a sea, to move between parts of island shore (Python reticulatus )

Background imageReptiles Collection: A young Common Monitor Lizard rests (sunbathing

A young Common Monitor Lizard rests (sunbathing in order to raise the body-temperature) on a tree-trunk, fallen in a small stream in rainforest (Varanus salvator)

Background imageReptiles Collection: Tokay Gecko - adult on a corner of a building after

Tokay Gecko - adult on a corner of a building after night feeding on insects (Gecko gecko ). Bohol - Philippines - February

Background imageReptiles Collection: CHAMELEON - on human finger, to show scale

CHAMELEON - on human finger, to show scale. (Brookesia minima ). Madagascar

Background imageReptiles Collection: Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Background imageReptiles Collection: Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Background imageReptiles Collection: Grass Snake - snake track goes along human track

Grass Snake - snake track goes along human track - desert - sand dunes (Natrix natrix). Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk town - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Background imageReptiles Collection: Common Wonder Gecko / Frog-eyed Gecko - looks

Common Wonder Gecko / Frog-eyed Gecko - looks for prey under a bush in sand dunes - licks his eye to prevent it from drying - feeds mostly on insects (Teratoscincus scincus)

Background imageReptiles Collection: Delphinus fitzroyi

Delphinus fitzroyi. From: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Date: 1839

Background imageReptiles Collection: Abrocoma bennettii

Abrocoma bennettii. From: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Date: 1839

Background imageReptiles Collection: Advert for Mayflowa crocodile and lizard womens shoes 1923

Advert for Mayflowa crocodile and lizard womens shoes 1923
Mayflowa crocodile and lizard shoes. Available from The House of Abbott, in Regent Street, London. 1923

Background imageReptiles Collection: Smooth-necked iguana design

Smooth-necked iguana design
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

Background imageReptiles Collection: Brachiosaur neck vertebra

Brachiosaur neck vertebra
A specimen of a neck vertebra that once belonged to a dinosaur from the Brachiosauridae family. This family of dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous period

Background imageReptiles Collection: Awful Changes

Awful Changes
Frontispiece - Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Buckland. A cartoon by H.T de la Beche. You will at once perceive, continued Professor Ichthyosaurus

Background imageReptiles Collection: Pteranodon

Pteranodon was a giant flying reptile which lived during the Cretaceous period around 85 to 75 million years ago

Background imageReptiles Collection: Melanosuchus niger, black caiman crocodile

Melanosuchus niger, black caiman crocodile

Background imageReptiles Collection: Green Tree Frog

Green Tree Frog
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Background imageReptiles Collection: Snake illustration by Albertus Seba

Snake illustration by Albertus Seba
Tab 81, a snake illustration from Thesaurus Vol 2, by Albertus Seba

Background imageReptiles Collection: Rock Python skin

Rock Python skin
Dr Colin McCarthy examining a Rock Python skin in the Zoology department of The Natural History Museum, London

Background imageReptiles Collection: Chimera

Chimera
An illustration of a mythical creature, part mammal, part reptile, the Chimera. On display for the Myth and Monsters Exhbition which ran from April to September, 1998 at the Natural History Museum

Background imageReptiles Collection: Ichthyosaurus communis

Ichthyosaurus communis

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frogs as Humans (2 of 5)

Frogs as Humans (2 of 5)
Frogs sing Love in May

Background imageReptiles Collection: The Snake Prince / Queen

The Snake Prince / Queen
The princess begs the Queen of Snakes to give her back her husband. (Feroshepore story)

Background imageReptiles Collection: Ballet dancing frog on a Christmas card

Ballet dancing frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Duck, frog and duckling on a comic card

Duck, frog and duckling on a comic card
The egg has hatched and a duckling has emerged, with the frog and the mother duck standing on either side -- Peacemaker. (5 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Four frogs in red tailcoats on a cutout Christmas card

Four frogs in red tailcoats on a cutout Christmas card, raising their glasses in a toast. circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Cat and Frog

Cat and Frog
Unusual Friends - Cat and Frog. 1950s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frog and stork on a cutout Christmas card

Frog and stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frog on a cutout Christmas card

Frog on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frog driving coach on a German Whitsuntide postcard

Frog driving coach on a German Whitsuntide postcard
Frog driving a coach drawn by cockroaches on a German Whitsuntide postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Three frogs weightlifting on a German postcard

Three frogs weightlifting on a German postcard
Three frogs weightlifting in the gym on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frogs sitting on a bench on a postcard

Frogs sitting on a bench on a postcard, smoking, reading, or just thinking. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageReptiles Collection: Frogs having a swimming lesson on a greetings postcard

Frogs having a swimming lesson on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s



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