Skeleton Collection (page 13)

Eryops skeleton on display at the Natural History Museum, London. This creature was a carnivorous amphibian which lived in the Permian era about 250 million years ago

Artiodactyla (order), artiodactyl
Photograph of various artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulate mammal skeletons, held in the Osteology storeroom at the Natural History Museum, London

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon
Fossil skeleton from the Middle Eocene, Lutetian, Oil Shale from Messel near Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany. From the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Fossil bat

Dinosaurs Gallery
A wide-angle view of the Natural History Museums Dinosaur Galery

Mantella pulchra, frog
This small frog specimens tissues have been cleared and the skeleton stained with alizarin. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Sperm whale skeleton, March 1901
This sperm whale skeleton stood in the Central Hall between 1882 and 1901. The whale was found near Thurso, Scotland, in 1863

Open case with snake skeleton, 1939. The Natural History Mu
This Indian python skeleton, Python molurus, is still on display today

Haliaeetus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle skeleton
The skeleton of a white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), housed at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Preserved Fish

Preparation of skeleton material using the larvae of Dermestes maculatus (hind or leather beetle) to eat the flesh

Foraminiferal limestone
Nummulitic limestone made up of the hard parts of billions of foraminiferans

Bradypus sp. three-toed sloth
A mounted skeleton of a three-toed sloth, an arboreal edentate from South and Central America, having long hook-like claws by which it hangs from tree branches

Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitaire
Plate number 512 c by Richard Owen drawn from a male skeleton specimen at Cambridge university.This giant flightless pigeon was the closest relative of the dodo, it was native to Rodrigues Island

Porosphaera (sponge) necklace
Necklace of Porosphaera beads from the Bronze Age, Higham Marshes, near Rochester, Kent. From the neck of a crouched skeleton in a stone-lined grave

Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) skeleton on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Excavating neanderthal remains
Excavation work which featured in a press conference at the Natural History Museum, London, December 1997

Myotragus
This animal which lived around 6000 years ago was from the antelope group. Its remains have been found in the Balearic islands

Ichthyosaurus communis (Conybear)
A fossil specimen of an Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorset. On display at The Natural History Museum, London

Fossilised Macracara prisca, cichlid
This well-preserved, fossil specimen originates from the Lower Tertiary rocks of Brazil, some 65 million years ago

Eryops megacephalus
Skeleton of Early amphibian (Eryops megacephalus), 295-285 million year old specimen from the Early Permian, Texas, U.S.A

Cichlid from the family of perch-like fishes native to rivers and lakes in central and south America, Africa and Madagascar and parts of Asia

Heliobatis radians, fossil stingray
Specimen of the fossil stingray (Heliobatis radians) originating from the Eocene rocks of Wyoming, U.S.A. This specimen is around forty-five million years old

Bradysaurus baini
A mounted fossil skeleton of Bradysaurus baini, a 258 million year old specimen from the Late Permian, Cape Province, South Africa

Plesiosaurus conybeari
Fossil specimens, (plaster cast of the original) of the extinct marine reptile, Plesiosaurus conybeari on display at the Natural History Museum, London. BMNH R 1338 and BMNH R1339

Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni
A cast of the earliest known Pliosaur on display in The Life Galleries, The Natural History Museum, London

Scyliorhinus canicula, common dogfish
Specimen of the cartilaginous skeleton of a dogfish contained in a specimen jar

Megatherium skeleton
Plate 72 from Le Regne Animal Vol 2 by Georges Cuvier

Homo sapiens skeleton
An illustration showing a male human skeleton, page 40 from Histoire de la Nature by P Belon, 1555. In the publication this is ompared with skeleton of a bird on page 41. (See image 6887)

Skeleton of a bird
Page 41 from Pierre Belons Histoire de la Nature (1555). Compare with skeleton of a man on page 40, (picture ref. 6886)

MEXICO. Guanajuato. Momies Museum (interior)

Camel Caravan Desert
A caravan of traders in the North African desert. Date: circa 1880

10 Rillington Place
John Reginald Halliday Christie. Map of garden of 10 Rillington Place Skeletons of Ruth Fuerst and Muriel Eddy, colour coded to show location of each bone Date: 1949

Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Leaving the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse trotting. Date c1881

Skeleton of horse. Trotting. On the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse trotting. Date c1881

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Leaving the ground

Skeleton of horse. Trotting. Nearing the ground

Skeleton of horse. Standing. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse standing. Date c1881

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Contact with the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse leaping. Date c1881

Skeleton of horse. Running. Leaving the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse running. Date c1881

Skeleton of horse. Running. Off the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse running. Date c1881

German Gotha G. IV heavy bomber, Margate, WW1
A German Gotha G.IV heavy bomber, set on fire by the pilot after a forced landing at Margate, Kent, on 22 December 1917. The crew surrendered

German cemetery blown up by American shell, WW1
A German cemetery blown up by an American shell on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

Young soldier in Serbia, eastern front, WW1
A 14-year-old soldier, Peter Vucinie, on his way to the trenches in Serbia on the eastern front during the First World War. Behind him is the skeleton of a horse. Date: 1915-1917

Skeleton 18th Century
skeleton with a bended arm Date: Circa 1760

Skeleton from the Side
Skeleton seen from the left hand side. Date: Circa 1760

Death, skeleton
A wonderfully macabre grinning skeleton with a full head of hair and wearing a robe, crouches by a fire of burning human remains to warm its hands

Tail of wrecked R101 airship at Beauvais
The shape of the tail fins and rudder of the R101 airship can be clearly seen amid the wreckage after it crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

Skeleton of a horse drawn at the Natural History Museum, London

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