Giganteus Gallery

Cacti, chromolithograph, published in 1900

Cacti: 1) Cereus flagelliformis; 2) Bottle cactus (Hariota salicornioides); 3) Schlumbergera gaertneri (Epiphyllum truncatum); 4) Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata); 5) Mistletoe cactus (Rhipsalis baccifera, or Rhipsalis sarmentacea); 6) Rhipsalis cassutha; 7) Rainbow pincushion (Mammillaria rhodantha); 8) Leuchtenbergia principis; 9) Ferocactus hamatacanthus (or Echinocactus longihamatus); 10) Echinopsis cinnabarina; 11) Pachycereus marginatus (or Cereus gemmatus); 12) Carnegiea gigantea (or Cereus giganteus); 13) Pelecyphora aselliformis; 14) Opuntia tuna; 15) Cereus grandiflorus; 16) Melon cactus (Melocactus intortus, or Melocactus communis); 17) Old man cactus (Cephalocereus senilis); 18) Echinocactus longihamatus; 20) Ariocarpus retusus; 21) Opuntia cochenillifera, or Nopalea coccinelhifera; 22) Echinocereus procumbens. Chromolithograph, published in 1900

Perentie monitor lizard eating snake

Richly patterened big Perentie monitor lizard (Varanus giganteus) eating snake in arid habitat of dry scrub and gravel, Watarrka National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

© 2011 Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott - registered at U.S. Library of Congress Office

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Skeleton of the Megatherium, and Mastodon giganteus

Skeleton of the Megatherium, and Mastodon giganteus, or the American mastodon, Mammut americanum. . Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidt's Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr. Schmidt's Book of Petrification introduced fossils and palaeontology to both the specialist and general reader

© Florilegius / Mary Evans