Bence Mate / Fallow deer (Dama dama) at night, Gyulaj, Hungary Third place in the Nature Portfolio category of the World Press Photo Awards 2017.

Bence Mate / Fallow deer (Dama dama) at night, Gyulaj, Hungary Third place in the Nature Portfolio category of the World Press Photo Awards 2017.

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of great sea monster reported by Hans Egede in 1735. From The Naturalist's Library by Sir William Jardine. This monster or was reportedly spotted off the coast of Greenland, and...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Sea Hares from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. During the middle ages all manner of land animals were thought to have their o...

Paul D Stewart / 1491 Woodblock illustration of from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. Shows an apothecary removing a toad stone bezoar from a large toad's 'third eye'. Toad s...

Paul D Stewart / 1491 Woodblock illustration of a from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - man taking a cure for snake bite. Hortus Sanitatis translates from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. The Hortus was the first printed na...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. Showing the snake Cerastes and the cyanocephalus dog headed man. The Hortus was the first printe...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of a Phoenix in her nest of fire from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491- translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. The Hortus was the first printed natural history encyclopa...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration, the first printed image of a falconer with hawks, from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Helath'. The Hortus was the first printed natural...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Camels from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the latin as 'Garden of Health'. This is the first printed illustration of a camel in literature. The Hortus was...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of a camel from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. This is the first printed illustration of a camel in literature. The Hortus was...

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 / Illustration of mythical Papio and man-headed beast. Published in Amsterdam in 1673 by Jacob Von Meurs for Arnoldus Montanusa 'De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld' after the first book related to America b...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of mythical creature with early colouring from Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1557. Publ. Christof Froshover, Zurich. Gesner takes this image from Breidenbach's 'Journey to the Holy Land'...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of mythical creature with contemporary colouring from 'Icones Animalium' Publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner illustrates a creature captured in the forest of Hanesberg...

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 / Woodcut illustration of whale attacking ship, with old colouring. From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' published by Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560.

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of sharks attacking a man, with a ray coming to help, with old colouring. From Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. This scene is copied by Gesner fr...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Satyrus marinus - a sea monster or mermaid of partially human form, with old colouring. Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner reproduced thi...

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...