Paul D Stewart / Photographic reconstruction of Archaeopteryx by Paul D. Stewart. The fossils of this species was from 150 million years ago, and is thought of as a stage between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds.

SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Preserved Coelocanth (Latimeria chalumnae) on public display at the Natural History Museum in London, found originally off the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. In life they are a dark blue colour w...

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt after...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of Moa or Dinornis discovered by Mr. Walter Mantell on the North Island of New Zealand. Plate with later tinting, from Gideom Mantell's petrifactions and their teachings (1851) published by Henr...

Neil Lucas / Richard Ganniclifft filming bush fire in Western Australia, on location for BBC series 'Private Life of Plants' 1993

Ashley Cooper / Navala village in the Fijian highlands, the only village left on the island still composed entirely of traditional Bure houses, Fiji, March 2007.

Ashley Cooper / Navala village in the Fijian highlands, the only village left on the island still composed entirely of traditional Bure houses, Fiji, March 2007.

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of Charles Darwin taken by Lock & Whitfield in 1877 and published in' Men of Mark' 1878.

Paul D Stewart / The history of life, proposed by Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz. Agassiz would disagree strongly with Darwin's theory of evolution. This diagram from 1855 shows how he understood biological...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817- 1912) botanist, by George Richmond, reproduced in Hooker's ' Life and Letters'. Hooker was a good friend of Darwin and the director of Kew Gardens.

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Mandrake (Mandragora) from two pages of the Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health' by Jacob Meydenbach, 1491. He describes plants and anim...

Paul D Stewart / Darwin in the Woods - historical cartoon of Charles Darwin entitled 'Natural Selection' by Frederick Waddy from his 'Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day' 1873.

Will Watson / 12th Century stone carved tympanum featuring the tree of life, also showing Green Man figure carved on the right capital, Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture, Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire, E...

David Woodfall / Solitary Bees, wasp mimicking species, Oxford Natural History museum, Oxford, UK.

David Woodfall / Solitary Bees, wasp mimicking species, Oxford Natural History museum, Oxford, UK.

David Woodfall / Solitary Bees, wasp mimicking species, Oxford Natural History museum, Oxford, UK.

David Tipling / Sculpture from ancient Egypt showing the swallow, a symbol of everlasting life.

David Tipling / Wall art from an excavated room known as the 'Vulture Shrine', with the Vulture removing the head / soul of the deceased. Catal Huyuk, an ancient site, dating back to 6500 BCE still being excavated at...

Flip Nicklin / Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) life-size model, American Museum of Natural History, New York

Mike Salisbury / Camerawoman Justine Evans filming presenter Sir David Attenborough in a canopy crane on location for BBC Natural History Unit series 'Life of Birds'. Venezuela, 1997

Neil Lucas / Cameraman Mike Pitts, filming underwater for BBC 'Life' in the Bahamas, Caribbean, July 2007

Martha Holmes / Cameraman Peter Scoones recording Southern elephant seal on location in Stromness Bay, South Georgia, filming for BBC television series "Life in the Freezer", February 1993

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU Sound recordist at village meeting, Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon, on location for Life of Birds,

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU film crew on location for Life of Birds in Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon.

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU film crew on location for Life of Birds in Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon.

Nigel Bean / BBC NHU film crew on location for Life of Birds in Bamenda Highlands, North West Province, Cameroon.

Miles Barton / Filming Japanese cranes (Grus japonensis) Japan for BBC Life of Birds

Martha Holmes / Paul Atkins filming giant petrel and skua scavenging dead fur seal, Bird Island, South Georgia - for BBC television series Life in the Freezer 1992

Peter Bassett / Film crew camp at Gentoo penguin colony Couveville Island, Antarctic Peninsula. On location for BBC series Life in the Freezer 1991

Paul D Stewart / Illustartion of series of primate skeletons, the frontis engraving by Waterhouse Hawkins from the first edition of Huxley's 1863 'Evidences as to Man's Place in Nature'. In this book Huxley presented...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Harpers Weekly, August 14th 1869 'Palaeozoic Museum, showing the rehabilitated forms of ancient animal life in america now being constructed in Central Park'. Wood cut from Benjamin...

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882), English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt aft...

Paul D Stewart / 1909 illustration of Charles Darwin in tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right) by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in the periodical 'Simplicissimus' 15th February 1909. This for...

Paul D Stewart / 1909 'On Darwin's hundredth Birthday' Illustration of Charles Darwin in heavenly tree with young chimpanzee (left) and orangutan (right). Chromolithograph by the German artist Thomas Theodor Heine in...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892), 1894 engraving from an 1840s painting by Pickersgill, later hand colouring. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He coined...

Paul D Stewart / Toxodon platensis fossil teeth together with the illustrations featured in George Sharf's life-sized lithograph (pl. IV) from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle' under the supervision of Charles...

Paul D Stewart / Toxodon platensis fossil teeth together with teeth featured in George Sharf's life-sized lithograph (plate IV) from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle' under the supervision of Charles Darwin, P...

Paul D Stewart / Silhouette first produced by Auguste Edouart of 'William Buckland and his Wife and Son Frank, Examining Buckland's Natural History Collection. The original is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Thi...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Charles Waterton (1782-1865), steel plate engraved frontis with later tinting from 'Essays on Natural History by Charles Waterton, edited with a life of the author by Norman Moore, B.A.' P...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 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. He was the first geologist to pub...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt (14th September 1769 - 6th May 1859), Lizars' Steel engraving c 1830 with hand colouring after the 1806 painting by Friedrich Weitsch. A German explorer an...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

Paul D Stewart / First edition of Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia', Part 1 'The Laws of Organic Life' with section revealing his remarkably prescient 'world without end' text on evolution. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) from a picture by Wright of Derby, reproduced with later hand colouring by his grandson, Charles Darwin in 'Life of Erasmus Darwin' 1879 (Ernst Krause co-author)...

Paul D Stewart / 18th Century engraving with contemporary handcolouring showing coral, squid and a nautilus shell. Such exotic objects were emblematic of any good cabinet of curiosities and held particular fascination...

Paul D Stewart / 1674 Copperplate engraving depicting 'Creation of the birds, fishes and large marine life' (Genesis 1. 20-23 Day 5) under the Hebrew divine word of God. 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the movi...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of fish. Conrad Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. In marked contrast to his exotica which were often fancifully drawn Gesner's woodcuts of f...

Paul D Stewart / 1849 portrait of John Stevens Henslow (6 February 1796-16 May 1861), crop of lithographic portrait from life by Thomas Herbert Maguire as part of the Friends of the Ipswich Museum scientific portrait...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 illustration of Crystal Palace at its Sydenham site, with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' dinosaur sculptures in the foreground. 11cm x 16.3 cm. Miniature colour print by the George Baxter patent pr...

Paul D Stewart / 1855 Cartoon from Punch's Almanac of that year, ascribed to John Leech, captioned 'A visit to the antediluvian reptiles at Sydenham - master Tom strongly objects to having his mind improved'. Clockwis...

Michael Pitts / Camerman Michael Pitts with Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) filming on location at Chagres river, Panama, filming for BBC television series 'Trials of Life', 1991/1992

Adam White / Camerman Barrie Britton with Whooper swan. On location for BBC Life of Birds 1996

Adam White / Barrie Britton filming Sunbirds for Life of Birds. Mt Kenya Kenya. September 1997 Golden

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Golden deer and Dharma wheel on roof of Jokhang Monastery, founded between 639 and 647 AD, one of most revered religious structures in Tibet. Lhasa, Tibet, China.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Golden deer and Dharma wheel on roof of Jokhang Monastery, founded between 639 and 647 AD, one of most revered religious structures in Tibet. Lhasa, Tibet, China.

Chris Mattison / Plaque commemorating the life of Alfred Russell Wallace, co-founder of the theory of natural selection, who was born nearby, near St. Madoc's Church, Llanbadoc, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Septemb...

Tui De Roy / Historical collection of Land snails.Galapagos.