Paul D Stewart / A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct creatures in the...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Hairy stems of the Mastadon flower (Senecio congestus). Masik, Chukotka, Siberia.

Paul D Stewart / Mastodon teeth engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Mammut americanum is a late pliocene/pleistocene relative of the elephants whose fossils are found only in North America. First discove...

Paul D Stewart / 'Grand Mastodon' engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Mammut americanum is a late pliocene/pleistocene relative of the elephants whose fossils are found only in North America. First disco...

Paul D Stewart / Elephant skeleton engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Cuvier, the master of comparative anatomy, referenced modern species with extinct fossils to reveal their affinities and differences...

Paul D Stewart / A rare British informational broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849. It shows reconstructions of extinct cr...