Palaeontology Collection (page 3)

Piltdown Man article- The most ancient inhabitant of England
The most ancient inhabitant of England: the newly found Sussex Man. A page from the Illustrated London News by W.P Pycraft, examining the parallels between the Piltdown Man skull and jaw

Picture No. 10870197
Dinosaur trackway, Date:

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Dinosaurs: footprint of a large Theropod (meat eater) dinosaur. Date:

Red Lady of Paviland femur C016 / 5028
Red Lady of Paviland femur. This fossil femur, stained red with ochre, is part of a human fossil skeleton (Homo sapiens) known as the Red Lady of Paviland (Paviland 1)

Ichthyosaurus fossil C013 / 7904
Ichthyosaurus fossil

Flint hand-axe C013 / 6640
Flint hand-axe. This hand axe dates to the late Palaeolithic and was found in Farnham, Surrey, UK

Dinosaur eggs, China Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis (Lee et al, 1995) These eggs were probably laid by a giant form of
FG-12038 FOSSIL- Dinosaur Eggs Cretaceous, Xixia Basin, Henan Province, China Macroelongatoolithus xixiaensis These eggs were probably laid by a giant form of oviraptor

Fossil Snake Caste - Eocene - 50 million years old - Green River Formation - Wyoming - USA Specimen courtesy Geo Decor
CAN-3832 Fossil Snake Caste 50 million years old - Green River Formation - Wyoming - USA Specimen courtesy Geo Decor - Please credit John Cancalosi contact details: prints@ardea.com tel

Fossilised diatoms, SEM

Cambrian invertebrate, artwork
Cambrian invertebrate. Artwork of a Hallucigenia fortis invertebrate (red) and jellyfish swimming in an ancient sea during the Middle Cambrian

Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, computer artwork. T. rex was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, measuring 5 metres tall and weighing 7 tonnes

Homo erectus skull. Artwork, from 1931, showing a reconstruction of the skull of Java Man, based on the fossil skull fragments (dark grey) discovered by Dubois in Java in 1891

Spinosaurus dinosaur, computer artwork. Spinosaurus was the longest carnivorous dinosaur, reaching a length of up to 16 metres. It had a long crocodile-like head, and probably fed on fish

Tapejara pterosaur, artwork. Tapejara was a flying reptile that inhabited what is now South America between around 112 and 98 million years ago, in the early Cretaceous period

Artists impression of Tyrannosaurus rex
Artists impression of a Tyrannosaurus rex at the moment when an incoming giant meteorite or asteroid led to the devastating changes on Earth that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs

Ammonite. Polished sectioned ammonite fossil. Ammonites are extinct marine invertebrates. They first appeared in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian period (around 400 million years ago)

1804 Megatherium Cuvier Plate
Copperplate, art by Laurilliard, engraving by Couet, (from Bru), Plate 1 in Cuviers account in " Annales du Museum National d Histoire Naturelle" 1804, Vol. 4, No 29

1824 Bucklands Megalosaurus jaw teeth
1824 Quarto Plate XLI of Megalosaurus jaw and teeth drawn by Mary Moreland, from William Bucklands " Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield"

Petrified wood. Petrified tree logs from the Late Triassic Period (over 206 million years ago). Petrification is a term used to describe the fossilisation of wood

Neanderthal landscape, artwork
Neanderthal landscape. Artwork showing a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis, far right behind tree) watching grey wolves (Canis lupus, foreground)

Dinosaurs - Agatized bone Close-up of a polished section of a Sauropod dinosaur bone from the Morrison Formation
FG-6486-C Dinosaurs - Agatized bone Close-up of a polished section of a Sauropod dinosaur bone from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Colorado

dinosaur excavation - Hadrosaur bones Hadrosaur bones in situ after excavation
FG-CB-434 dinosaur excavation - Hadrosaur bones in situ after excavation. Dinosaur Park Formation, Late Cretaceous, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta

Fossil Araucaria Cones, cross section & full cone, Mid Jurassic, Province Santa Cruz, Argentina
FG-11972 Fossil - Araucaria Cones, cross section & full cone Mid Jurassic, Province Santa Cruz, Argentina. Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Fossilised dinosaur footprints at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, Colorado, USA. This region was home to the iguanodon, a massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail

Fossilised ammonite (Asteroceras obtusum). Ammonites are an extinct group of molluscs that are thought to be related to modern cephalopods such as octopus, squid and cuttlefish

Fossil Fish with Shrimp (Carpopenaus) - Lebanon - Cretaceous
CAN-2475 Fossil Fish with Shrimp (Carpopenaus) Lebanon - Cretaceous Tselvatia John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Fossil Sea Urchins (Soutella) - Saumar-France - Helvetien
CAN-2457 Fossil Sea Urchins (Soutella) Saumar-France - Helvetien John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Fossil - Bird. Confuciusornis. Lower Cretaceous. This specimen is a well preserved female bird with extensive organic
CAN-2193 Fossil - Bird. Confuciusornis. Lower Cretaceous. China This specimen is a well preserved female bird with extensive organic preservation-carbonized skin

Fossil Dragonfly - Green River Formation - Wyoming, USA - Eocene 50 million years before present Please credit Green
CAN-2699 Fossil Dragonfly - Green River Formation Wyoming, USA Eocene 50 million years before present John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Fossil Mantis in Amber - Dominican Republlic - 15-40 million years old - oligocene
CAN-2446 Fossil Mantis in Amber - Dominican Republlic 15-40 million years old oligocene and miocene - amber is hardened tree resin which preserves organisms trapped inside - Dominican amber comes

A Sawrian: cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a suarian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore

Richard Owen, British palaeontologist C016 / 5008
Richard Owen (1804-1892), British anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen was the founder and first director of the Natural History Museum, London, UK

1833 Rev. William Buckland fossils colour
" 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

Cave painting of a boar, artwork
Cave painting of a boar. Artwork of a cave painting found on the roof of the Altamira Cave in northern Spain, which was inhabited during the the Upper Palaeolithic period

Ammonite fossil C016 / 5777
Ammonite (Parkinsonia dorsetensis) fossil. This ammonite has an evolute shell and is displaying complex suture lines. Specimen originates from the Middle Jurassic

Homo erectus cranium C013 / 6552
Cast of a Homo erectus cranium. The fossil this cast was taken from is known as Solo Man (Ngandong 1), and was found at Ngandong, close to the Solo River on the island of Java, Indonesia

Dinosaurs - Dilophosaurus Early Jurassic, Arizona. Theropod (flesh-eating) dinosaur
FG-CB-758 Dinosaurs - Dilophosaurus Display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada Early Jurassic, Arizona. Theropod (flesh-eating) dinosaur

Fossil skull of Australopithecus afarensis
JH-52 Fossil skull of Australopithecus afarensis - extinct hominid Australopithecus afarensis John Holmes contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Dinosaurs - paleontologist Lynett Gillette examines bones of the dinosaur Coelophysis Coelophysis was a small
FG-DH-289 Dinosaurs - paleontologist Lynett Gillette examines bones of the dinosaur Coelophysis Coelophysis bauri Coelophysis was a small carnivorous dinosaur of the Late Triassic (Chinle Formation)

Allosaurus dinosaur, computer artwork. Allosaurus was a large carnivorous dinosaur that was found throughout much of the world between 154 and 135 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period

1838 Frontis Mantell Wonders of Geology 1838 Frontis Mantell Wonders of Geology
Frontis for Gideon Mantells popular book " Wonders of Geology" (1838) which did much to popularise geology during victorian times

Stenos shark tooth fossil
Great white shark jaw with fossil shark teeth. Copperplate after Steno 1667. Steno produced a book " Head of a shark dissected" from his dissection of a great white shark caught in

1838 Maidstone Iguanodon Mantell piece a
The famous Mantell piece, a rock slab containing the most complete set of articulated dinosaur bones discovered up to that time - those of an iguanodon found in Maidstone, Kent

Shonisaurus marine reptile, artwork
Shonisaurus marine reptile. Artwork of a Shonisaurus hunting a shoal of belemnites. This extinct reptile lived 215 million years ago

Megalosaurus jaw, 19th century artwork
Megalosaurus lower jaw, 19th century artwork. Artwork from the 1886 ninth edition of Moses and Geology (Samuel Kinns, London). This book was originally published in 1882

Orthocerid hunting trilobites, artwork. Orthocerids are extinct members of the Cephalopoda class of marine animals that include squids, octopuses and nautiloids

Fossil Sting Ray from Wyoming. Eocene
PM-10147 Fossil Stingray from Wyoming. Eocene Heliobatis sp. Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Fossil Fish - Jurassic Period Soinhofen, Gremany
KEL-1489 Fish FOSSIL - Jurassic Period Soinhofen, Germany Ken Lucas Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

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"Unraveling the Mysteries of the Past: A Journey through Palaeontology" Step into the world and embark on a captivating adventure through time. From the remarkable Lascaux II cave painting replica, depicting ancient human artistry, to the intricate geological strata that reveal secrets buried for centuries. Follow in the footsteps of our ancestors along the Trail of Laetoli footprints, preserved imprints capturing a moment frozen in time. Marvel at the fossil tooth of a mighty megalodon shark, once ruler of prehistoric oceans, now displayed at Oceanopolis Brest Brittany France. Behold Archaeopteryx, known as "the first bird, " showcasing both dinosaurian and avian features - a mesmerizing link between two worlds. Witness stages in human evolution unfold before your eyes, tracing our journey from primitive beings to modern Homo sapiens. Illuminate an ancient ammonite under UV light; Desmoceras spp. , from Madagascar's Albian Stage during Upper Early Cretaceous era - its vibrant hues revealing hidden beauty. Encounter another Archaeopteryx specimen in Berlin-Germany; this fossilized bird offers insights into Jurassic life like no other. Discover tools used by prehistoric humans such as spear-throwers that aided their survival amidst formidable challenges. Gaze upon Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs mating - an awe-inspiring glimpse into their primal existence. Lastly, encounter Coelacanth fossils found off South Africa's coast in 1938 after being thought extinct since the Cretaceous period. These living fossils challenge our understanding of evolution and remind us that nature holds many surprises yet to be unveiled. Palaeontology invites us to unravel Earth's enigmatic past and connect with creatures long gone but never forgotten, and is through these remnants we gain insight into our own origins while fueling curiosity about what lies beyond our current knowledge horizon.