Robert Thompson / Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) Kandersteg, Switzerland, June

Chris Shields / Illustration of Dragonfly (Aeshnidae sp.) nymph - showing clasping mouthparts in extended and retracted positions.

Nick Garbutt / Illustration of Aquatic / Web-footed / Otter Tenrec (Limnogale mergulus) swimming underwater. Endangered / threatened species.

Chris Shields / Illustration of Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae),Balaenopteridae, mother and calf swimming. .

Martin Camm / Carwardine / Illustration of Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) bubblenetting: a humpback corrals prey in a net of bubbles before lungefeeding at the surface (Wildlife Art Company).

Martin Camm / Carwardine / Illustration of Quagga (Equus quagga quagga), Equidae; extinct in the wild by end of 19th century (Wildlife Art Company).

Ian Coleman / Illustration of Big-eye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus), Alopiidae. Endangered / threatened species.

Ian Coleman / Illustration of Common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus), Alopiidae. Endangered / threatened species.

Ian Coleman / Illustration of Acandonian (extinct shark).

Ian Coleman / Illustration of Falcatus (prehistoric shark) - extinct.

Ian Coleman / Stethacanthus (prehistoric shark) - extinct.

Chris Shields / Illustration of Crab spider (Pistius truncatus) Thomisidae.

Chris Shields / Illustration of wildlife at African waterhole: Water buffalo (Syncerus caffer),gazelle,African lion (Panthera leo),African elephant (Loxodonta sp), weaver birds (Ploceidae).

Chris Shields / Illustration of European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) perched in grassland with moth and gorse flowers.

Chris Shields / Illustration of Holly blue butterfly (Celastrina argiolus), Lycaenidae.

Chris Shields / Illustration of wildlife of the Andes: South America~Alpaca (Vicugna pacos),centre; Cougar / Puma / Mountain lion / Mountain cat / Catamount / Panther (Puma concolor),left; Spectacled / Andean bear (T...

Chris Shields / Illustration of Orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines),resting and perched on leaf; male top, female below.

Chris Shields / Illustration of Water beetle (Colymbetes fuscus),bottom left; Mayfly (Ephemeroptera sp.), centre; and Mosquito (Culicidae sp.) right; with larvae.

Chris Shields / Illustration of British bumblebees (Bombus sp.).~Top line: Bombus terrestris,Bumbus lucornum. Middle line: Bombus pasovorum,Bombus pratorum. Bottom line: Bombus hortorum, Bombus apilarius.

Chris Shields / Illustration of Adonis ladybird(Hippodamia / Adonia variegata),has between 3 and 15 spots,.

Chris Shields / Illustration of Asian wildlife: Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) - endangered / threatened species; Snow leopard (Panthera / Uncia uncia) - endangered / threatened species; Himalayan / Impeyan monal (Lopho...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) - extinct~Flightless bird endemic to Mauritius, extinct since the mid to late 17th century.

Julian Hume / Illustration of extinct and extant birds,Reunion Island,Indian Ocean. Reunion fody (Foudia delloni), male (top right) female (top left) (extinct 1674); with Reunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes) (bottom...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritian lowland dry forest with extinct species. Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) - extinct 1688 - in a woodland of black ebony (Diospyros tesselaria),Tambalacoque Sideroxylon grandiflorum,...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Tafforet's lizard-owl / Leguat's owl / Rodriguez little owl (Mascarenotus murivorus) - extinct 1761 - pouncing on giant night gecko (Nactus sp.) (centre bottom),the largest of the Masc...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritius blue pigeon / Pigeon Hollandais (Alectroenas nitidissima) - extinct 1835 -~perched on ebony (Diospyros egrettarum) critically endangered. Endemic to Mauritius, Indian Ocean.

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritius red hen (Aphanapteryx bonasia) - extinct 1690. Didosaurus (Leiolopisma mauritiana) - extinct 1600 - basking on Pandanus sp.,sits next to a blue-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma cep...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Reunion's pigeons in a gorge above St Louis, Mauritius. Malagasy / Madagascar turtle dove (Nesoenas picturata) (top left - extant); Reunion pink pigeon (Nesoenas duboisi) (centre left)...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Reunion solitaire / Reunion sacred ibis (Threskiornis solitarius) - extinct - on the side of the Piton des Neiges volcano,island of Reunion, Mauritius.

Julian Hume / Illustration of Rodrigues high-backed carosse tortoise (Cylindraspis vosmaeri ) - extinct 1795 - (left); Rodrigues domed tortoise (Cylindraspis peltastes) - extinct 1795 - (centre). Leguat's rails (Er...

Julian Hume / Illustration of extinct parrots. Clockwise from top right: Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor) - extinct 1864,Cuba,West Indies; Jamaican red macaw (Ara gossei) - extinct 1765,Jamaica,West Indies; Rodrigues...

Julian Hume / Illustration of extinct pigeons. Clockwise from top right: red-moustached fruit dove (Ptilinopus mercieri tristrami) - extinct 1920,Hivoa,Maquesas; Marquesas fruit dove (Ptilinopus mercieri mercieri)...

Julian Hume / Illustration of extinct rails. Clockwise from top right: Mauritius red rail (Aphanapteryx bonasia) extinct 1700,Mauritius,Mascarenes; San Cristobel gallinule (Gallinula silvestris) - extinct 1929,San...

Julian Hume / Illustration of view of Makauwahi Sinkhole from the southwest side as it might have appeared 3000 years ago,prior to human arrival. On left side,a flock of turtle-jawed moa-nalo (Chelychelynechen quas...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritius domed giant tortoise (Cylindraspis inepta) - extinct 1720. Mauritius,Mascarenes, Indian Ocean.

Julian Hume / Illustration of Reunion crested starling (Fregilupus varius) - extinct 1850. Reunion Island,Mascarenes, Indian Ocean.

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritius dawn showing extinct species. A Mauritius giant tortoise (Cylindraspis inepta) - extinct c 1730 - awaits the warmth of the morning sun,while the Thirioux's grey parrot (Psitt...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Reunion Island skink (Leiolopisma ceciliae) - extinct. Closely related to the extant Telfair's skink (Leiolopisma telfairi) from Mauritius. May have died out due to predation from intr...

Martin Camm / Carwardine / Illustration of Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis), Delphinidae (Wildlife Art Company).

Martin Camm / Carwardine / Illustration of magnetic fields and dolphins stranding (Wildlife Art Company).

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Auroch (Bos primigenius) from Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1560, with later colouring. Published by Christoph Froschover, Zurich. Hirsfogel's near identical picture of the auroch has the ins...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Indian/Asian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), Gesner Woodcut from 'Icones Animalium' 1560, reproduced from 1551. Published Christoph Froschover, Zurich. Gesner reproduces this image...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of whale slaughter with old colouring from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Foschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner appears to derive this image partly from Olaus Magnus 'Historia...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gessner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and creatures which we now know do not. There...

Paul D Stewart / Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) portrait detail from a woodcut with old colouring. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner's artist catches the perceived intelligent a...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Of the Tiger' (Panthera tigris) a 1607 engraving with later tinting from Edward Topsell's 'History of four Footed Beasts'. Topsell produced one of the first printed English Bestiaries, c...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of mythical creature, The Su, 1627 woodblock engraving from Sebastian Munster's account of the New World from the Cosmographia. German edition of 1627 dealing with the navigation of Magel...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Birds of Paradise (Paradisaea spp), woodcut from Merian and Jonston's 'Historia Naturalis' 1660 (which continued to be printed up to 1767). Shows a range of species including the blue...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of mythical hydra with hand colouring by J. Chapman 1806 after engraving by Seba in his 'Treasury of Natural History' (1734). In 1735 a young Linnaeus visited Hamburg. While ther...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Death's Head Hawk Moth (Acherontia atropos) by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof with his own copperplate, handcolouring and plate correction, 1744. From 'Der monatlich-herausgekommene...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and Mauritius parrot; woodblock print with later handcolouring from the Penny Magazine (London, June 1, 1833). Print after similar painting by C. Edwards 1750...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of a Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with hand colouring possibly by Donovan himself. While most plates were thinly coloured to tint the interstices of the lines of the engraving b...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of man with Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). An Indian Rajput style miniature dating to 19th century showing 'Ahimsa'. Ahimsa is a tenet of the Indian Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism and Ja...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini) attacking a ship, 1815 copperplate engraving from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur kinder' 16 plate 5. with contemporary colour. 'Colosal Polypus' (octopus) a...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of gibbon, orangutan and chimpanzee. 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang', 'Der Hooloch' and 'Der Shimpanzee' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistor...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus). 1824 contemporary coloured lithograph by Carl Brotdmann of 'Der Orang-Uttang' appearing as table 1 in 'Naturhistorische Abbinldungen der Saeugethiere' by H...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) from 'Naturhistoriche Abbinldungen der Saeugethiere' by Heinrich Rudolph Schinz. later edition circa 1841. Fine contemporary coloured lithograph...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of the extinct Falkland Island Wolf or Fox (Dusicyon australis). Hand coloured lithograph, Plate IV, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / 'Organic Remains restored' front page illustration of the Penny Magazine, October 26th 1833, with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. This is the first illustrated popular article on...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from page 379, 'Journal of Researches' 2nd Edition 1845 Charles Darwin. The contrasting beaks of four Galapagos finches, three Geospizinae genus and one Certhidea (Warbler finch). Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'Extinct Animals that once lived where Paris now is' an anonymous lithograph opposite page 21 from the American Children's book 'Wonders of the Earth Sea and Sky' 1837 written by Peter Pa...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct Thylacine / Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cyanocephalus) engraved by W. Lizars. From Jardine's series 'The Naturalist's Library; Mammalia' 1841 ('The Natural History of Marsupial...

Paul D Stewart / 1853 illustration of Gorilla, contemporary coloured copperplate engraving from 'Das Buch der Welt' John Weik, Stuttgart. The lowland Gorilla was first accurately described outside Africa by the missio...

Paul D Stewart / Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris' 'A History of British Birds' by the printer Benjamin Fawcett circa 1853. Morris was instrumental in founding the Royal Society for th...

Paul D Stewart / 1857 illustration of pterodactyls by Philip Gosse for his book 'Omphalos' (which sought to explain that the world looked older than Creation because it had to be constructed by God with inbuilt histor...

Paul D Stewart / 1862 illustration of Megalosaurus, a wallchart after Waterhouse Hawkins with Pterosaurs in background. One of six wall charts entitled 'Waterhouse Hawkins's Diagrams of the Extinct Animals' for the De...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Permian swamp showing Archegosaurus amphibians and Palaeoniscis fish among large Lepidodendron (2 right) and Sageneria (3 left) trees. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schubert's Natu...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of vivid colour lithograph for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published 1888 in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Fri...

Paul D Stewart / 19th century lithograph illustration of a Jurassic landscape including the dinosaurs: Megalosaurus (1), Iguanodon (2 with incorrect nose spike), Hylaeosaurus (3 with incorrect orientation of spines) L...