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A wide array of colorful sea slugs from The journal of the Bombay Natural History Society v.112:no.3 (2015).

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sea slugs

Sep 06, 2024

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Sea snail shells from Jaochim Spalowsky’s Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum (1795).

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scientific illustration shells sea snail

Aug 30, 2024

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A psychotria plant from Itinera principum S. Coburgi v.1 (1883).

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scientific illustration plant flower

Aug 23, 2024

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A dinosaur of the late Cretaceous, Struthiomimus altus, engaged in various possible behaviors from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History v.35 (1916). From the top: running, anthill attacking, tree browsing, and shoreline hunting.

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scientific illustration dinosaur

Aug 16, 2024

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Sandhill cranes from L.A. Portenko Birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island v.1 (1981).

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birds sandhill crane

Aug 09, 2024

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An ornate sword and scabbard with horse handle from Thomas Hendley’s Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883 (1883).

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Indian art

Aug 02, 2024

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A Sunda clouded leopard, referred to in the text as a “Clouded Tiger,” from Joseph Wolf’s Zoological Sketches v.1 (1861).

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scientific illustration clouded leopard cat

Jul 26, 2024

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A paper stencil of “Frisky cows” from Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s Indian drawings : 2d series, chiefly Rājput (1912).

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Indian art cows paper stencil

Jul 19, 2024

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Ancient Korean beads from Chōsen koseki zufu v.3.

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Korean art beads

Jul 12, 2024

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Electron microscope images of sea snail teeth from Malacologia v.53 (2015).

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electron microscopy sea snail

Jul 05, 2024

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Egyptian minerals, possibly breccia or conglomerate rock, from Description de l'Égypte Histoire naturelle atlas [bis.].

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minerals

Jun 28, 2024

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An electric eel from D. Marcus Elieser Bloch’s, ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin … Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands pt.2:[Atlas 2].

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scientific illustration eel

Jun 21, 2024

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Electron microscope image of a parasitoid wasp (Adialytus ambiguus) from British journal of entomology and natural history v.22 (2009).

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wasp insects

Jun 14, 2024

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Some examples of bird chariots from Berthold Laufer’s The bird chariot in China and Europe (1906).

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bird chariots Chinese art

Jun 07, 2024

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From G. P. Rouffaer’s De batik-kunst in Nederlandsch-Indië en haar geschiedenis (1914): an Indonesian fabric pattern “with Chinese and Dutch influences” according to the text.

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Indonesian art

May 31, 2024

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