Thomas Marent / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) antennae of a male, Malaysia

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) seen in its burrow. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a succes...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes). The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful breeding progr...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Ankole cattle, cultural icon for the traditionally nomadic Bahima people of Uganda, outside Lake Mburu National Park, Uganda, East Africa. After years of disputes between neighbouring communities and...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes). The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful breeding progr...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes). The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful breeding progr...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) seen in its burrow. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a succes...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) seen in its burrow. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a succes...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) seen in its burrow. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a succes...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) running. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful breedi...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes). The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful breeding progr...

Roland Seitre / Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) by its burrow. The species is endangered on account of prey depletion and vulnerability to foreign infection. Declared extinct in the wild in 1987, a successful...

Paul D Stewart / The 'leisure Hour' January 1859, a pickled gorilla propped up with stick from the barrel in which it was preserved. It is a specimen from Paul Du Chaillu intended (as the label on the barrel lid state...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Viscacha (Lagidium sp.). Plate 42 from Volume 1 Trans Zool Soc London, 1835, 'Additional remarks on the Genus Lagotis, with some account of a second species referrible to it' with cont...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Gir Indian Lion (Panthera leo). Plate 24 from Volume 1 Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 1835, 'Some Account of the maneless Lion of Guzerat' with contemporary hand colouring as issued. The pl...

Paul D Stewart / Falklands Wolf (Dusicyon australis). 1778 'The Wolf Fox of Faulklands Islands', a copperplate engraving from Commodore Byron's 'An account of a Voyage Round the World'. The Falkland Islands Wolf, Dusi...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate illustration of Giant Ground Sloth by Laurilliard, engraving by Couet, (from Bru), Plate 1 in Cuvier's account in 'Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle' 1804, Vol. 4, No 29. Cuv...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. French naturalist (7 September 1707 - 16th April 1788). Steel engraving 1833 by Robert Hart with later colouring, from the painting by F.H. Drouais...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 illustration from Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) folio copper engraving of the fifth day of creation (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers unde...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the fourth day of creation folio copper engraving (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of J...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) loading the Ark, folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748). The...

Paul D Stewart / European Brown Bear (Ursos arctos arctos) kills hunter who has taken her cubs. 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) bear attack, folio copper engraving drawn by a team...

Paul D Stewart / Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733). The ape is contrasted to 'Hairy Esau' in this folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers unde...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733). Creation of Man from Dust (Homo ex humo) folio copper engraving with later hand colouring drawn by a team of engravers under the d...

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 War Elephant (Elephas maximus), 1552, The Cosmographia, Book V, by Sebastian Munster (the early latin edition from the Basel printing house of Sebastian Heinrich Petri). Woodcut plate...

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 / 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 / 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 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 / Illustration of lowland (Western) gorilla (Gorilla gorilla). Frontispiece illustration, enhanced tone, of Paul Du Chaillu's 1861 'Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa' published by John Mu...