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Natural History Images
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin we have compiled a complete series of natural history images, tracing evolution from the earliest and simplest of life forms like stromatolites through trilobites, ammonites and dinosaurs up to the mammoth. |
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DEINOTHERIUM Deinotherium was a large relative ot the elephant which roamed accross Europe up to 12,000 years ago. |
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SUCHOMIMUS & CAULKICEPHALUS Here in a scene from the early Cretaceous a huge Suchomimus bears down on the pterosaur Caulkicephalus. |
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STROMATOLITES Water debris collects on bacteria colonies to form the first visible sign of life |
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TRILOBITE A segmented eye made trilobites the dominant arthropod for millions of years |
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AMMONITES The fossils of these molluscs are so abundant today, they must have swarmed in the seas in their millions |
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CLADOSELACHE SHARK Sharks have been the dominant ocean predator for nearly 400 million years |
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MEGANEURA Huge insects like the wonderful Meganeura were the first animals to conquer the land |
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COCHLEOSAURUS Big Ammphibians like Cochleosaurus and Egoyrinus evolved from fish to take over the land from the insects |
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COLELUROSAURAVS The first reptiles were by no means primitive as this little glider Colelurosauravus shows |
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CETIOSAURUS Sauropods were the largest of the dinosaurs. Cetiosaurus would have been a common site in the forests of what is now Europe 175 million years ago |
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ICHTHEOSAUR An almost complete fossil of one of these magnificent air breathing reptiles, found by Mary Anning in Dorset kicked off a new field of science – paleontology |
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TROODON The Troodon was a small theropod carnivore, it was also very intelligent, having one of the largest brains for its body size of any dinosaur |
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MAMMOTH Just a few thousand years ago herds of mammoth could be seen migrating across Europe, Asia and America as the seasons changed |
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If you would like to commission a natural |
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All images are available in any size you wish, up to a maximum printable size of 45 cm x 30 cm. If you would like to purchase an image for publication just send us an Email: |
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