#scientific illusration

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#ThylacineThursday:

'The Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus Cynocephalus)” - hand-coloured lithographic plate

Plate XII in Gerard Krefft’s The Mammals of Australia (1871), illustrated by sisters Helena & Harriet Scott; this one by Harriet.

National Library of Australia collection: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-33627803

[arthistoryanimalia]

It’s #WorldMeerkatDay!

Robert Jacob Gordon (Dutch, 1743-1795) Meerkats, 1773-80 + 1777-86 watercolor drawings from the Gordon African Collection (illustrations made during his expeditions to South Africa). Rijksmuseum collection.

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For #WorldPenguinDay:

Eileen Mayo (1906-1994) Yellow-eyed Penguin, 1976 gouache on paper Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa

🆔🚨The Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), known also as hoiho or tarakaka, is an endangered species of penguin endemic to New Zealand.

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#MammalMonday #MarsupialMonday #MonotremeMonday mashup: Thylacines, Bandicoots, Wombats, & an Echidna!

"Scene in Tasmania, with Characteristic Mammalia." Pl.XI in Alfred Russel Wallace's The Geographical Distribution of Animals Vol. 1, 1876; illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker.

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For #Feathersday:

Caroline Conyers (British, 1768 - 1848) Study of Four Feathers with White Currants, n.d. pencil, watercolor and bodycolor 22.3 x 18.4 cm (8.75 x 7.25 in.) private collection

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Ernst Haeckel was born #OTD (16 Feb 1834 - 9 Aug 1919). Here are two of his Kunstformen der Natur (1904) reptile plates that don't get shared as often, along with keys to the species depicted: Plate 79 Lacertilia (lizards) + Plate 89 Chelonia (turtles).

Kunstformen der Natur - Wikimedia Commons

Key to Plate 79: 1. Cameroon Sailfin Chameleon 2. Chameleon Forest Dragon 3. Flying Dragon 4. Texas Horned Lizard 5. Kuhl's Flying Gecko 6. Common Basilisk 7. Frill-necked Lizard 8. Thorny Devil - 1.Chamaeleon montium (Buchholz) = Trioceros montium/Chamaeleo montium Buchholz, 1874 (See Trioceros montium) 2. Lophyrus tigrinus (Duméril) = Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus Laurenti, 1768 (See Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus) 3. Draconellus volans (Linné) = Draco volans Linnaeus, 1758 (See Draco volans) 4. Phrynosoma cornutum (Wiegmann) = Phrynosoma cornutum (Harlan, 1825) (See Phrynosoma cornutum) 5. Ptychozoon homalocephalum (Kuhl) = Ptychozoon kuhli Stejneger, 1902 (See Ptychozoon kuhli) 6. Basiliscus americanus (Daudin) = Basiliscus basiliscus (Linnaeus, 1758) (See Basiliscus basiliscus) 7. Chlamydosaurus kingii (Gray) = Chlamydosaurus kingii Gray, 1827 (See Chlamydosaurus kingii) 8. Moloch horridus (Gray) = Moloch horridus Gray, 1841 (See Moloch horridus)

Key to Plate 89: 1: Leatherback Turtle 2: Hawksbill Turtle 3: Argentine Snake-necked Turtle 4: Mata Mata 5: Geometric Tortoise 6: Galápagos Tortoise 7: Common Snapping Turtle - 1. Dermatochelys coriacea (Blainville) = Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) 2. Caretta imbricata (Gray) = Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) 3. Hydromeda tectifera (Wagler) = Hydromedusa tectifera Cope, 1869 4. Chelys fimbriata (Duméril) = Geochelone nigra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) 5. Testudo geometrica (Linné) = Psammobates geometricus (Linnaeus, 1758) 6. Testudo elephantina (Duméril) = Dipsochelys dussumieri Gray, 1831 7. Chelydra serpentina (Schweigger) = Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Rendezvous by Robert McCall, 1986.

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Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes-ovipares. 1819.