Palaeontology Collection (#60)

1857 Hugh Miller portrait photograph
1856. Hugh Miller, Scottish geologist and palaeontologist. Born 1802 died 1856. Photographic frontispiece of author by J.G

1823 First complete Plesiosaur fossil
" Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus discovered in the Lias at Lyme Regis in 1823" Folded triple quarto plate XLVI drawn by T. Webster after original by Mary Anning

Pelecanimimus dinosaurs. Artwork of a group of Pelecanimimus dinosaurs drinking from a stream. This ornithomimosaur (ostrich-like dinosaur) lived around 120 million years ago

1731 Johann Scheuchzer stone tools
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuzner (1672-1733) folio copper engraving of prehistoric stone tools and monolith

Triceratops dinosaur, artwork
Triceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a ten tonne Triceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Darwin fossil specimens Hunterian Museum
Illustrated London News 4th October 1845. Engraving of the Hunterian Museum with Darwin-like figure central. Darwin discovered many striking extinct giant mammals while travelling overland in South

Dimetrodons, artwork
Dimetrodons, computer artwork. Dimetrodon were the dominant land predators that lived around 270 million years ago, during the Early Permian Period, and long before the dinosaurs

1819 Humboldt Travels South America
South American geological and ethnic artefacts with the first english translation (1819) of Alexander Humboldts " Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

Cupped ichthyosaur vertebrae Everard Home
Ichthyosaur Vertebrae in cross section, copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society

1823 William Buckland cave hyena fossil
1823 Copper engraving of a modern hyena (top) and British hyena jawbones (below) from Kirkdale cave (below) with an actual cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) fossil jawbone resting on the page

Pentaceratops dinosaur, artwork
Pentaceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a six tonne, 27 foot (8.2 metres) long Pentaceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

1822 First description of dinosaur
1822 Plate from James Parkinsons " Outlines of Oryctology" with composite of contemporary library book reference card and the Parkinsons description of Megalosaurus

Alpine Geology flood evidence Scheuchzer
1731 Copperplate print of alpine geology and recurved strata as evidence of the catastrophe of Noahs Flood. Print is from Johann Jakob Scheuchzers (born August 2nd 1672 - died June 23rd 1733)

Brachiosaur dinosaur. Artwork of a brachiosaur dinosaur walking in a rocky landscape by a river. This dinosaur was one of the largest-ever land animals

1840s Geologist Henry De La Beche
Swantype (cleaned) 1840s Portrait mezzotint of Henry Thomas De La Beche (1796-1855), a geologist famous for his cartoon and humorous representations of early fossil finds and fellow geologists

Torosaurus dinosaur, artwork
Torosaurus dinosaur. Computer artwork of a Torosaurus wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

Prehistoric dragonfly, artwork
Prehistoric dragonfly. Computer artwork of giant Meganeura resting on a plant in a fern forest, at sunrise during the Carboniferous period (354-290 million years ago)

1824 Bucklands Megalosaurus first paper
1824 First page (390) of William Bucklands " Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield". Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2, vol 1: 390 -396

Ichthyosaur skull and paddle Everard Home
Copperplate engraving from a paper in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical society by Sir Everard Home describing the first ichthyosaur discoveries. See other photos in this collection

Cupped Ichthyosaur vertebra Everard Home
Ichthyosaur Verterbra copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society

1770 Mstricht Mosasaur
1798 Copperplate engraving map with its original handcolouring from Volume III of J.L Bertuchs " Bilderbuch fur Kinder". Mosasaur hoffmanii

Gideon Mantell, palaeontologist
Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 - 10 November 1852). Gideon Mantell was a local doctor whose interest in fossils lead to his 1822 discovery near his home in Lewes of the first Iguanodon fossils

Ichthyosaur skeleton engraving 1819 Home
First scientific illustration of a complete ichthyosaur skeleton. Copper fold-out engraving at life size, (2.5cm ammonite top right for scale). It comes from a paper by Sir Everard Home in 1819

Mammoth, artwork
Mammoth, computer artwork. Mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) were large mammals, weighing on average around 6 to 8 tonnes. They were found across North America

1843 Reverend William Buckland portrait
Buckland in field collecting gear. The Reverend William Buckland D.D. F.R.S. Canon of Christ Church and Professor of Geology and Minerology in the University of Oxford

Ichthyosaur paddle Everard Home 1819
Ichthyosaur paddle copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society 1819

Scheuchzer portrait 17th / 18thC naturalist
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (born August 2nd 1672 - died June 23rd 1733). Swiss traveller naturalist and geologist. Contemporary Folio size Portrait copper engraving at 59 years old (1731)

1830 Baron Georges Cuvier palaeontologist
George Cuvier, naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist (23 August 1769 - 13 May 1832). Portrait engraving by James Thompson

Albertaceratops dinosaur, artwork
Albertaceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a 20 foot (6 metres) long Albertaceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

1833 Penny Magazine extinct animals crop
1833 October 26th " Organic Remains restored" front page of the Penny Magazine with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. (Original print black and white also available)

1838 Toxodon teeth & figs. from Darwin b 1838 Toxodon teeth & figs. from Darwin b
Toxodon platensis fossil teeth together with illustrations in George Sharfs lithograph (pl. IV) from " The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle" under the supervision of Charles Darwin

Zuniceratops dinosaur, artwork
Zuniceratops dinosaur. Computer artwork of a 113Kg, 10 foot (3 metres) long Zuniceratops wandering in a forest during the Late Cretaceous period (around 65 to 100 million years ago)

1763 Dinosaur bone misidentified scrotum
Copperplate print page 318 by Proud in R. Brookes 1763 " The Natural History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils and Minerals etc."

Tyrannosaurus dinosaur, artwork
Tyrannosaurus dinosaur. Computer artwork of a seven tonne Tyrannosaurus wandering in a forest around 68 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, in what is now the Western United States

Stegosaurus dinosaurs, artwork
Stegosaurus dinosaurs, computer artwork. Stegosaurs ( roofed reptiles ) were herbivores that lived throughout the world during the Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago

1812 Cuvier on Scheuchzers flood victim
Illustration in Vol. 4 of Cuviers " Ossamens Fossiles" 1812. In 1726 Scheuchzer illustrated Homo Diluvii testis as a fossil human victim of the flood

1697 Fossil sea urchin Clypheus from Plot
The Jurassic fossil sea urchin Clypheus ploti is shown on top of the engraving from 1697 where Robert Plot illustrates the species for the first time in his " Natural History of

Pentaceratops dinosaurs mating. Artwork of male (right) and female (left) Pentaceratops dinosaurs mating. The name of this herbivorous dinosaur refers to the five horns on its head

1770 Mstricht Mosasaur discovery
1798 Copperplate engraving with its original handcolouring from Volume III of J.L Bertuchs " Bilderbuch fur Kinder". Mosasaur hoffmanii

1726 Scheuchzer Homo diluvii testis
Homo diluvii testis (evidence of a diluvian human or witness of the flood) from the work of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (August 2nd 1672 - June 23rd 1733)

Richard Leakey, palaeoanthropologist
Richard Leakey. Caricature of the Kenyan palaeoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 1944) holding an Australopithecus hominid skull, which he discovered

Fossilised teeth, Gran Dolina. These human teeth, dating back approximately 800, 000 years, were found in level TD6 at the Gran Dolina site between 1994 and 1995

Neanderthal skull, artwork
Neanderthal skull parts. Artwork of parts of a Neanderthal skull, found in 1856 in a limestone quarry in the Neandertal area of Germany, after which the Neanderthals are named

Cave painting of a bison, artwork
Cave painting of a bison. Artwork of a cave painting found on the roof of the Altamira Cave in northern Spain, which was inhabited during the the Upper Palaeolithic period

Rock engraving of reindeer, artwork
Rock engraving of reindeer. Artwork of a prehistoric engraving found on a piece of schist rock. It is thought to be from the Abri de Laugerie Bas

Utahraptor dinosaur, artwork. Utahraptor ostrommaysorum are dromaeosaurs, a group thought to have been an extremely lethal due to the large curved claws on their feet

Cave painting of horse and hind, artwork
Cave painting of a horse and a hind. Artwork of a cave painting found on the roof of the Altamira Cave in northern Spain, which was inhabited during the the Upper Palaeolithic period

Crystal geode. Lump of rock cut in half showing crystals formed inside. A geode is a concretion, an irregular or ball-shaped object created when minerals fill a cavity in rock

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"Unraveling the Mysteries of the Past: A Journey through Palaeontology" Step into the world and embark on a captivating adventure through time. From the remarkable Lascaux II cave painting replica, depicting ancient human artistry, to the intricate geological strata that reveal secrets buried for centuries. Follow in the footsteps of our ancestors along the Trail of Laetoli footprints, preserved imprints capturing a moment frozen in time. Marvel at the fossil tooth of a mighty megalodon shark, once ruler of prehistoric oceans, now displayed at Oceanopolis Brest Brittany France. Behold Archaeopteryx, known as "the first bird, " showcasing both dinosaurian and avian features - a mesmerizing link between two worlds. Witness stages in human evolution unfold before your eyes, tracing our journey from primitive beings to modern Homo sapiens. Illuminate an ancient ammonite under UV light; Desmoceras spp. , from Madagascar's Albian Stage during Upper Early Cretaceous era - its vibrant hues revealing hidden beauty. Encounter another Archaeopteryx specimen in Berlin-Germany; this fossilized bird offers insights into Jurassic life like no other. Discover tools used by prehistoric humans such as spear-throwers that aided their survival amidst formidable challenges. Gaze upon Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs mating - an awe-inspiring glimpse into their primal existence. Lastly, encounter Coelacanth fossils found off South Africa's coast in 1938 after being thought extinct since the Cretaceous period. These living fossils challenge our understanding of evolution and remind us that nature holds many surprises yet to be unveiled. Palaeontology invites us to unravel Earth's enigmatic past and connect with creatures long gone but never forgotten, and is through these remnants we gain insight into our own origins while fueling curiosity about what lies beyond our current knowledge horizon.