Life Gallery

Roman seafood mosaic

Roman seafood mosaic. Mosaics consist of small pieces of coloured glass or stone, used to form an image or pattern on a floor or wall. This marine fauna mosaic is from the House of the Faun, in Pompeii, Italy, and accurately depicts over twenty forms of fish, shellfish and eels. At centre, an octopus attacks a lobster. Surrounding them are dogfish, morays, sea basses, sea breams, mullets, and electric rays. This mosaic is displayed in the Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

© SHEILA TERRY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

A Selection of Fish

An assortment of fish: 1. sharp-nosed eel, 2. blunt-nosed eel, 3. burbot, 4. lamprey, 5. lampern, 6. chub, 7. perch, 8. roach, 9. bream, 10. rudd, 11. Prussian carp, 12. Crucian carp, 13. tench, 14. barbel, 15. carp, 16. pike, 17. ruff, 18. dace, 19. dudgeon, 20. powan, 21. sea trout, 22. vendace, 23. Loch Leven trout, 24. salmon trout, 25. gwyniad, 26. smelt, 27. minnow, 28. grayling, 29. salmon, 30. loach, 31. spined loach, 32. gillaroo trout, 33. common trout, 34. great lake trout, 35. bleak, 36. Gray's charr, 37. Welsh charr, 38. Windermere charr, 39. Alpine charr, 40. Cole's charr, 41. bullhead or Miller's thumb, 42. salmon parr, 43. three-spined stickleback, 44. ten-spined stickleback

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10020018

Curiosity rover, artwork

NASA's next Mars rover, the Curiosity Rover, will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale Crater. Launch is palneed for November/ December 2011. After performing the first ever precise landing in August 2012, the MCR will help access Mars hability, that is, whether Mars is or was an environment able to support microbial life

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