Jabruson / Mummified infant Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) a relic from research from 1959, amongst old laboratory paraphernalia and assorted zoological specimens. CRSN (Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles...

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) mummified juvenile which was carried for several weeks after death by his mother. Bossou, Republic of Guinea

Pal Hermansen / Mummified child, buried around 1475 in NW Greenland, near Ummanaq, discovered in 1972, now in Greenland Natural History Museum, Nuuk, Greenland. July. 2016.

David Tipling / Mummified falcon from ancient Egypt.

Daniel Heuclin / Pre-columbian mummy, Alcaya, Altiplano, Bolivia, October 2008

Daniel Heuclin / Mummies from Anga tribe, Papua New Guinea

Neil Lucas / Mummified Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) trapped in the ice, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica, November 2008

Norbert Wu / Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) carcass mummified in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Pete Oxford / Shrunken head (Tsantza), Shuar tribe, Ecuador. Jivaro Shuar tribe used to shrink head of enemies killed in battle - first they removed the skull and boiled it to shrink the head. Then the eyes and li...

Steve Gettle / Banded Garden Spider (Argiope trifasciata) feeding on mummified insect prey, North America

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Sacred Ibis. Composite of three plates (by Balzac) from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' 1812. Left - a mummy skeleton from Thebes, middle - the modern sacred ibis, right - an Egyptian te...

Paul D Stewart / Mummified Ibis Head from Egypt (Ptolemaic period 305-30 B.C.) together with English translations of Cuvier's 'Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe' and one of his Ibis plates reproduced after 'Ossa...