Albert Lleal / Hand-beast (Chirotherium barthii), a trace fossil from the early Triassic, Montseny Natural Park, Catalonia, Spain

Paul D Stewart / 1798 illustration of people excavating Mosasaur (Mosasaur hoffmanii) skull; copperplate engraving with its original handcolouring from Volume III of J.L Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder'. The Maastric...

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 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 / 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 / Illustration of Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus) 'Of the Elephant' a 1607 engraving with later tinting from Edward Topsell's 'History of four Footed Beasts'. Topsell produced one of the first English...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of the 'Monster of Krakow' was reported widely in the mid sixteenth century as a real occurence. It was seen by many protestants as a monstrous symptom of divine displeasure at th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Sea Serpents from Gesner's 'Historia Animalium', volume 4, 1558. Later hand colouring. Italic marginalia by contemporary scholar. Gessner's accounts included creatures which exist, and...