Alt text: Black-and-white illustrations of a bat, a peacock, an elephant, and some kind of a monkey with their skeletons on top of faint silhouettes of their bodies. The bat and peacock also have studies of their skulls on the page
The Public Domain Review
From Comparative Osteology (1821–38) with illustrations by the Italian-born German naturalist Edouard Joseph d’Alton, an artist and art history professor whose students included a young Karl Marx. More of his wonderful images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/comparative-osteol…
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Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838)
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Black rat snake - Pantherophis obsoletus
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Illustration for the 2025 edition of ‘The Last Unicorn’ by Peter S. Beagle, published with The Folio Society.
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Koi Pond, Oakland Museum
“Look,” you say, “beneath them.” Beneath them, like a subplot or a motive, is a school of uniformly dark ones, smaller, unadorned, perhaps another species, living in the shadow of the gold, purple, yellow, indigo, and white, seeking the mired roots and dusky grasses, unliveried, the quieter beneath…
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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Discover why a beaver was said to bite off its own testicles, why the baleen of a right whale was prized by medieval knights or why you should give your crush the gift of a great auk.Creatures of Story and Song pieces together evocative legends, poems and historical accounts from a thousand years of history […]
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Happywhale
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