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Pericriotus cinnamomeus, small minivetFf. 147b. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Turuds sordidulus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
CeratosaurusAnterior skeleton of the bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, Ceretosaurus, mounted for display at the US National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. This dinosaur lived 150 to 144 million years ago
Plate 14 from Coquilles Univalves Marines by Duclos (1835). Annotated: Genera Strombe
Feather detailA scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a birds feather
Pieris rapae, small white butterfliesThese white butterflies are also known as cabbage whites, this is because they lay their eggs on cabbage and other cultivated crops, which their caterpillars readily destroy
Dinner in the Iguanodon modelAn engraving of a dinner being held at the Crystal Palace inside the first full sized model of an Iguanodon made by Waterhouse Hawkins in 1853
Puffinus gravis, great shearwaterPlate 283 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Xema sabini, Sabines gull, Calidris alba, sanderlingPlate 285 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Permian desertAn artists impression of the Permian desert with huge sandunes and sandstone mountains (290 to 248 million years ago) in Northern England
Palaeontology Wing of The Natural History MuseumAn extension to The Natural History Museum opened on 24 May 1977
Eudyptula minor, little penguinFf. 84. Wtarecolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Aptenodytes minor and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Egretta thula, snowy egretPlate 242 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Gallinago gallinago, common snipePlate 243 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Dedroica palmarum, palm warblerPlate 145 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Coruvs ossifragus, fish crowPlate 146 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Mocha stone, sardonyx and agateMocha stone and sardonyx cameos resting on artificially dyed slabs of agate. All these varieties of chalcedony derive from the cryptocrystalline quartz group
Tyrannus dominicensis, grey kingbirdPlate 170 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Dendroica castanea, bay-breasted warblerPlate 69 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Stephanite comprises of (silver antimony sulphide) and is a minor silver ore. Specimen from Wheal Newton, Harrowbarrow, near Calstock, Cornwall
Accipiter novaehollandiae, variable goshawkFf. 35. Pencil drawing by George Forster annotated Falco lucuetos, New Holland white falcon and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Crinoidal limestone
Tortoise and armadillo comparisonA really strange picture, reminds me of 1960s New York art
Butterfly wing scale (part)
Dendrocygna viduata, white-faced whistling duckFf. 76. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas viduata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Edmontosaurus regalis skeletonFossil skeleton of Edmontosaurus regalis in its death position still half buried in sandstone rock. Dates back to the Upper Cretaceous perido, about 71 million years old. Discovered in Alberta, Canada
Jaw of Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, the narrow-nosed rhinocerLower 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
DeinonychusA model of the Deinonychus, meaning terrible claw. It was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Lower Cretaceous period, around 144 million years ago
Petrified conifer trunkContaining precious opal, width approx. 10 cm, discovered at White Cliffs, New South Wales, Australia. Dates back to the Late Cretaceous period
Iguanodon reconstruction by Gideon Mantell
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) painted in 1844Owen holds the leg bone of a moa, and is wearing robes of Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. Oil painting by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875)
Euoplocephalus cutleriDetail of a fossil of the armoured plated skin once belonging to Euoplocephalus cutleri, a dinosaur from the Ankylosaur family that lived 76 to 70 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous
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
Pipilo erythropthalmus, eastern towheePlate 29 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
William Yarrell (1784-1856)Portrait of William Yarrell, a zoologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854
Pheucticus ludovicianus, rose-breasted grosbeakPlate 127 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Raphus solitarius, Reunion white dodoPainting by Pieter Withoos (1654-1693)
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, anatomist and palaeontologist. Painting, oil on canvas, by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875), 1844
Surface of the early EarthAn impression by Barry Evans of what the surface of the Earth may have looked like when it was very young, and still forming
Amandava amandava, red avadavatWatercolour by Frederick Ditmas (c. 1840)
PlesiosaurusThis marine reptile was c. 2 metres long and lived about 180 million years ago during the Lower Jurassic period
Tadorna cana, South African shelduckFf. 70. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas montana and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Hibiscus seedsAn illustration of three hibiscus seeds as seen through a microscope, from page 497 of Flora, overo Cultura di Fiori (1638) by Battista Giovanni Ferrari (1582-1655)
Quiscalus major, boat-tailed gracklePlate 187 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Tringa nebularia, common greenshank
TriceratopsAn animated model of the dinosaur Triceratops created by Kokoro of Japan for the Natural History Museum, London (3/4 scale)
Proceratosaurus fossil skullA fossil skull that belonged to Proceratosaurus, a carnivorous, dinosaur from the suborder of Theropods that lived during the Middle Jurassic period around 169 - 164 mya
Marine coral
Psaronius, tree fernPolished section through the trunk of the tree fern Psaronius, width approximately 15 cm, from Chemnitz, Garmany, dating back to the Permian period, 250 - 299 million years ago