An angular roughshark from D. Marcus Elieser Bloch's, ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin pt.2:Atlas 3. Full text here.
A 19th century clay money bank in the shape of a raccoon on top of a log cabin from Edwin Barber's Lead glazed pottery pt.1. Full text here.
A violet-tailed sylph hummingbird from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History v.55 (1926)
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A variety of South American ladybug (aka ladybird beetle) shell patterns from Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria v.99 (2007-2008).
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A river scene from Aisaburō Akiyama's Sights of Old Capital (1919).
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A comparison of animal faces from Maapallon eläimistö v.1 (1922) 1. Tawny owl 2. Kākāpō 3. Sunda slow loris 4. Spectral tarsier 5. Three-striped night monkey 6. Jerboa 7. Gecko 8. Black-webbed treefrog 9. Blue lantern fish Full text here.
Close up photo of a mosquito's wing from Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia v.114 (2017). Full text here.
Marine hermit crab Probeebei mirabilis from Zoological Society bulletin v.29 (1926). Full text here.
A wide array of colorful sea slugs from The journal of the Bombay Natural History Society v.112:no.3 (2015). Full text here.
Sea snail shells from Jaochim Spalowsky's Prodromus in systema historicum testaceorum (1795). Full text here.
A psychotria plant from Itinera principum S. Coburgi v.1 (1883).
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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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Sandhill cranes from L.A. Portenko Birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island v.1 (1981).
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An ornate sword and scabbard with horse handle from Thomas Hendley's Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883 (1883). Full text here.
A Sunda clouded leopard, referred to in the text as a "Clouded Tiger," from Joseph Wolf's Zoological Sketches v.1 (1861). Full text here.
A paper stencil of "Frisky cows" from Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's Indian drawings : 2d series, chiefly Rājput (1912).
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Ancient Korean beads from Chōsen koseki zufu v.3. Full text here.