Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875..

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of vivid colour lithograph for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published 1888 in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Fri...

Paul D Stewart / Landscape of the Triassic coastal environment with reconstructions of dinosaurs and marine reptiles, 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart 18...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of Moa or Dinornis discovered by Mr. Walter Mantell on the North Island of New Zealand. Plate with later tinting, from Gideom Mantell's petrifactions and their teachings (1851) published by Henr...

Graham Eaton / Carbonifeous (Dinantian) Crinoidal Limestone, Halkyn, Wales. This limestone is wholly made up of fragments of fossil Crinoids.Crinoids are similar to Sea Lillys

Graham Eaton / Carbonifeous (Dinantian) Crinoidal Limestone, with camera lens cap for scale, Halkyn, Wales. This limestone is wholly made up of fragments of fossil Crinoids.

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of The Fossil Depot taken around 1895 in Lyme Regis, known as Anning's Fossil Depot, while Mary Anning still owned it. Mary Anning was one of the most influential women in science and dis...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of an Asian elephant (without its tusks) showing how the high nasal orifice for the trunk gives the impression of a single large eye socket. There is evidence that fossil elephant skulls (prehis...

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of Cromagnon 'Skull of an old man' Plate 1, Section C. Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875. The type sp...

Paul D Stewart / Chromolithograph illustration of perforated Cromagnon 30,000 ybp ornaments (shell, ivory), by Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' 1865-1875, Williams and Norgate, London 1875. Th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Permian swamp showing Archegosaurus amphibians and Palaeoniscis fish among large Lepidodendron (2 right) and Sageneria (3 left) trees. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schubert's Natu...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of cave man protects his mate and child from a marauding cave bear. He wields a hafted axe (from a later period) before a trophy skull of irish elk. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schu...

Paul D Stewart / Vivid colour illustrated lithograph for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Friedrich Ro...

Paul D Stewart / 19th century lithograph illustration of a Jurassic landscape including the dinosaurs: Megalosaurus (1), Iguanodon (2 with incorrect nose spike), Hylaeosaurus (3 with incorrect orientation of spines) L...

Paul D Stewart / Vivid colour lithograph illustration for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published 1888 in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Friedr...

Paul D Stewart / Landscape of the Triassic coastal environment with reconstructions of dinosaurs and marine reptiles, 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart 18...

Paul D Stewart / Fossil Trilobite (Triarthus eatoni) showing rare pyrites preservation of the limbs and antennae. From the late Ordovician 'Beecher's Bed' of Oneida County, New York, USA. The site is named after Charl...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of extinct lemur (Mesopropithecus dolichobrachion) with calcite surface crystalisation, discovered by the photographer in the Ankarana Caves of Northern Madagascar. Pictured on site in 1987, the...

Paul D Stewart / Nemiana simplex, a White Sea Ediacaran fossil (upper Vendian) in the sandstone shales from the Novodnestrovsky Quarry, Podolia, Ukraine. The ediacaran biota existed from about 580 to 540 million years...

Paul D Stewart / Skull of Cave Bear (Ursus uralensis), an extinct species of bear found in western Russia's Ural mountians and region. It is one of a complex of large extinct 'speleoid' or 'cave bear like' species tha...

Paul D Stewart / Putative cryogenian cnidarian fossil impressions from the Ranford formation of Australia, of a form reminiscent of the modern Porpita porpita (blue button colonial hydroids). The structure has also be...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Wooly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) skull, copperplate engraving from the work of Sir Everard Home before 1823.

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen and Moa leg (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892) photo-engraved by Walker and Boutall around 1894 from an 1846 Daguerrotype. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892), 1894 engraving from an 1840s painting by Pickersgill, later hand colouring. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He coined...

Paul D Stewart / 1834 steel engraving with contemporary hand colouring, the earliest coloured reconstruction of extinct fossil animals. It is from Guerin's Dictionnaire pittoresque Vol 1. plate 24. Numbered it include...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Strata of Tilgate Forest in Surrey' showing Gideon Mantell (seated) while two workmen excavate a partly exposed fossil spine of Iguanodon. The strata are labelled as: 1 Loam, 2 Sand a...

Paul D Stewart / 'Organic Remains restored' front page illustration of the Penny Magazine, October 26th 1833, with wood engraving illustration and later hand colouring. This is the first illustrated popular article on...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Horn of the Iguanodon' (3) and 'The Claw or unguical bone of an Iguanodon' (1) with, for comparison 'The Nail and the bone which it covered of a recent Iguana' (2, 3). Drawn and litho...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of 'The Reverend William Buckland D.D. F.R.S. Canon of Christ Church and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford 1833' Painted by Thomas Phillips and Mezzotint engrave...

Paul D Stewart / First engraving of Gideon Mantell's Hylaeosaurus discovery in the Tilgate forest quarry of the Weald. It represents only the third dinosaur to be discovered and named. Drawn and lithographed by F. Pol...

Paul D Stewart / 1824 Double quarto Plate XL of Megalosaurus' jaw and teeth drawn by Mary Moreland (modern tinting), from William Buckland's 'Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield'. Transact...

Paul D Stewart / 1824 illustration 'On the Discovery of an almost perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus' Transactions of the Geological Society, Second Series, Volume 1, page 381-390. This large folio plate is the firs...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Hyena (Crocuta sp.) jaw bones, 1823 copper engraving of a modern hyena (top) and British prehistoric hyena jawbones (below) from Kirkdale cave (below) with an actual cave hyena (Crocu...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Ichthyosaur skeleton, copper fold-out engraving at life size, (2.5cm ammonite top right for scale). It comes from a paper by Sir Everard Home in 1819. He was the first geologist to pub...

Paul D Stewart / The first scientific illustration of an Ichthyosaur skull, Temnodontosaurus platydon, discovered by Mary Anning, 1812. It comes from an 1814 paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ...

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 / Illustration of bear skulls of living and extinct species, engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Cuvier, the master of comparative anatomy, referenced modern species with extinct fossils t...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

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 Thomas Jefferson, polymath, American Founding Father and President (b. 13 April 1743 - d. 4 July 1826). Engraving by W.Holl in 'The Gallery of Portraits' 1837 with later colouring, after p...

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 print of human scrotum by Proud in R. Brookes 1763 'The Natural History of Waters, Earths, Stones, Fossils and Minerals etc.'; it seems to have been copied directly from Plot's 1677 plate...

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 / Illustration of extinct fossil giant salamander (Andrias sheuchzeri), first named as Homo diluvii testis (evidence of a diluvian human or witness of the flood) from the work of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrationg of great white shark jaw with fossil shark teeth, copperplate after Nicolas Steno 1667. Steno produced a book 'Head of a shark dissected' from his dissection of a great white shark caugh...

Paul D Stewart / Copper engraving of dinosaur femur, from Robert Plot's 1677 'Natural History of Oxfordshire'. Dug out of a quarry in 'the Parish of Cornwell' in Oxfordshire on the land of (and donated by) Sir Thomas...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of shark and shark tooth fossil from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560 (also 1558 in Historiae Animalium, Liber IIII). This is the first West...

Chris Shields / Illustration of the a pre-dinosaur tetrapod, the Pelycosaur (Dimetrodon). Lived from Early Permian to Middle Permian about 220 Ma ago.

Chris Shields / Illustration of the dinosaur Compsognathus,about the size of a turkey. Lived in the late Jurassic, 150 Ma ago.

Chris Shields / Illustration of the dinosaur Coelophysis,living in the Late Jurassic / Early Triassic, 203-216 Ma ago.