Juergen Freund / Paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) with engorged body on human hand, this species affects many species, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) among them and infects them with a toxin that ca...

Pat Tuson / The Green Room, Green Party charity shop with banner saying Vote Green Party above, Archway Road, London Borough of Islington, England, UK, April 2008.

Pat Tuson / Women leaving Cancer Research UK charity shop, Upper Street, London Borough of Islington, London, England, UK, March 2009

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) showing long second claw used for grooming, Australia

Pat Tuson / People looking into the window of an Oxfam charity shop Marylebone High Street, London Borough of Westminster, England UK, March 2009

Pat Tuson / Couple outside Oxfam Shop, just before Christmas, Highgate Village London, England, UK, December 2009

Barrie Britton / Nosy Be Pygmy Leaf Chameleon (Brookesia minima) male, the world's second smallest reptile on hand. Nosy Be, Madagascar. Photograph taken on location for BBC 'Wild Madagascar' Series, January 2010

Paul D Stewart / 1837 illustration of Greenland / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) breaching, from Jardine's 'Naturalist's Library', Whales, Plate 23 Volume VI, from artwork of Stewart engraved by W. H. Lizars. Ori...

Tim Edwards / Giant weta, Little Barrier Is, New Zealand. World's second largest insect related to crickets

Tim Edwards / Giant weta on hand. Little Barrier Is, New Zealand. World's second largest insect, related to crickets

Paul D Stewart / 1837 portrait of Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 - 10 November 1852). Engraved from a painting by Samuel Stepney, later hand colouring. Published in G. Mantell's 'Thoughts on a Pebble' 1849. Gideon Ma...

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 / Fine steel engraving with later hand colouring by l. Lewitt and Radclyffe of the 'British Museum - Zoological Gallery' in 'London Interiors' published by Joseph Mead of London (1841). The engraving sh...