Bone Collection (page 73)

Przewalskium albirostris, white-lipped deer
The Falklands fox, also known as the Falkland Islands wolf or the Warrah, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. It became extinct in 1876 (on West Falkland island)

Diplodocus presented to the museum, 1905
The cast of Diplodocus carnegii was presented by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The original skeleton, excavated in Wyoming, is in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Diphyllodes respublica, Wilsons bird-of-paradise
Plate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 4 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Iguanodon atherfieldensis skull
The skull belonging to Iguanodon atherfieldensis measuring 450mm long. The fossil was discovered along with a complete skeleton in Brook Bay, Isle of Wight and collected by R.W. Hardy in 1917

Mammuthus primigenius, woolly mammoth

Diplodocus carnegiei skull
The skull belonging to the replica skeleton of Diplodocus carnegiei on display at the Natural History Museum, London. The slender teeth would have raked leaves from branches

Deinocheirus
A pair of arms complete with 30 cm claws on each hand once belonging to Deinocheirus, an Upper Cretactous carnivorous dinosaur. This specimen was discovered in Mongolia

Plateosaurus
A fossil reconstruction of the hand and lower leg bones belonging to the dinosaur, Plateosaurus. These dinosaurs were wer herbivorous and may have used these sharp claws for defence

Triceratops skull
Side view of a Triceratops skull on display at the Natural History Museum, London. This specimen has moved from this location and can now be seen in the Dinosaur Gallery

Edmontosaurus laboratory work
Palaeontologists working on the dinosaur, Edmontosaurus. Applying a resin solution hardener to consolidate and protect freshly prepared fossil bones; here the ankle

Huayangosaurus skull
A fossil skull that once belonged to Huayangosaurus, a dinosaur from the infraorder Stegosauria. This specimen was discovered in Sichuan, China in 1982

Sauropod excavation, 1988
Team cleaning exposed elements of the fore and hind limbs of a Sauropod dinosaur in Niger, 1988

Dryosaurus hollow bone structure
Fragmented femur from Dryosaurus, a fast running herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period, 155 to 140 million years ago. Fossil evidence has been discovered in Tanzania and USA

Homo neanderthalensis (Kebarah) burial site
Burial site of Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis), 60, 000 years old from the Pleistocene, Kabara, Israel. On display in From the Beginning, Gallery 63

Homo sapiens (Predmosti) & Homo neanderthalensis (La Ferrass

Temnodontosaurus platyodon (Conybeare)
The skull of Temnodontosaurus platyodon, an Ichthyosaurus which lived between 201 and 194 million years ago in the Lower Jurassic. It was discovered by Mary Annings brother in 1811 in Lyme Regis

Lates gracilis, bony fish
Specimen of an Eocene bony fish (lates gracilis)

Dinosaurs discovered in western USA
A scene from Upper Cretacous western United States showing the following dinosaurs from left: Pachycephalosaurus, Ornithomimus, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex

Paranthropus boisei (OH5)

Proconsul, Homo heildebergensis & Homo neanderthalensis cran
L to R: Cranium of Proconsul, an extinct primate that lived 18 million years ago; Homo heildebergensis (Broken Hill 1) discovered in Zambia; and Homo neanderthalensis (Gibraltar 1)

Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855)
Painting of Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, an English geologist. Watercolour on paper, by Henry Pierce Bone (1779-1855), before 1848. Original at the Natural History Museum, London

Homo sapiens, Red Lady of Paviland (Paviland 1)
A Femur stained red with ochre from the oldest known modern human burial in Britain which dates back 26, 500 years. The specimen has been named The Red Lady of Paviland

Pterodactyl kochi

Eryops skeleton on display at the Natural History Museum, London. This creature was a carnivorous amphibian which lived in the Permian era about 250 million years ago

Apatosaurus, previously known as Brontosaurus
A solid pillar-like femur, or thigh bone that once supported the 20 to 30 tonne dinosaur, Apatosaurus. This specimen is 1.5 metres long

Brachiosaur back vertebra
A specimen of a back vertebra that once belonged to a dinosaur from the Brachiosauridae family. This family of dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous period

Edmontonia
The collar plates that once belonged to Edmontonia, the armoured herbivorous dinosaur that lived 76 to 78 million years ago during the Upper Cretaceous. Fossils have been found in Alberta, Canada

Artiodactyla (order), artiodactyl
Photograph of various artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulate mammal skeletons, held in the Osteology storeroom at the Natural History Museum, London

Baryonyx excavations
Team from the Natural History Museum, London at work on the excavation of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri at the Ockley brick pit in Surrey, England in June 1983

Dimorphodon macronyx
The fossil skull and lower jaw belonging to Dimorphodon macronyx. It was a giant flying reptile, or Pterosaur that lived during the Lower Jurassic period

Megalosaurus thigh bone
A human thigh-bone figured as item 4 on TAB VIII by Dr. R Plot in The Natural History of Oxfordshire in 1677 is actually a dinosaur thigh-bone, probably Megalosaurus

Gasosaurus was a flesh-eating bipedal dinosaur which lived during the middle Jurassic, about 160 mya. It was up to 4 metres long and 2 metres high with short arms

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