Three Pieces of Game Theodore Gericault (1791-1824/French) Oil on Canvas Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie, Besancon, France

Bundle With Four Dead Partridges Circa 1532 Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553 German) Watercolor Staatliches Kunstsammlungen, (Kupferstichkabinett)Dresden, Germany

Bird with Fish in Mouth Flying Towards Other Birds (from "Buch der Weisheit der alten Weisen") 1483 Artist Unknown Newberry Library, Chicago

Birds and Chicks in a Nest by a Stream (From "Buch Der Weisheit Der Alten Weisen") 1483 Artist Unknown Illustration Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The White-Tailed Eagle From Hudson's Bay 1751 GeorgeEdwards (ca.1694-ca.1773 British) Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Animals From Prehistoric Times: A Laelaps is Attacking a Brontosaurus ca. 1900 Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926 German) Colored print

Artist's reconstruction of a Pleisiosaurus and an Ichthyosaurus, From Science for All by Robert Brown (London, c1880), Engraving

Scene during the Lower Oolite period showing reconstructions of Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus and a Marsupial, From The Popular Encyclopaedia (London, 1888), Engraving

Scene during the Lias period, showing Pterodactyls, a dragonfly, Equisetums, and Tree Ferns, From The Popular Encyclopaedia (London, 1888), Engraving

Ideal flora and fauna of the Liassic period including Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus, From The Popular Educator (London, c1855), Engraving

Mosasaurus. Huge skull found in a quarry at Fort St Peter near Maastricht, Netherlands, in 1780, From The Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier (London, 1830), Engraving

Imaginative reconstruction of the Earth during the time of the dinosaurs, From Astronomie Populaire by Camille Flammarion (Paris, 1881), Engraving

Reconstruction of Iguanadon, large herbivorous dinosaur, sketched from model on show at the Natural History Museum, London, From The Illustrated London News (London 1895), Engraving

Archaeopteryx - The First Bird. Artist's reconstruction of archaeopteryx which made its appearance about 170 million years ago, based on fossil records. Print published 1886. Hand-coloured engraving

Fossilised skeleton of a Megatherium or Giant Sloth, found in Paraguay in about 1796. Lithograph from Nature Displayed by Simeon Shaw (London, 1823).

Skeleton of Mammoth discovered in 1817 by Dr Mitchell of New York at Goschen, Orange County and later assembled in the Philadelphia Museum. From Simeon Shaw Nature Displayed, London, 1823. Lithograph

Skeleton of Giant Mastodon excavated by Wilson Peale of Philadelphia at Newburgh on the Hudson, 1801. From Cuvier The Animal Kingdom, London 1830. Engraving

Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthis) skeleton, approximately 3m (9ft) high 5.5m (16ft) long, discovered in the ice in Siberia in 1799. Extinct genus of elephant from Pleistocene Epoch (2,500,000 to 10,000 years ago) found in fossil deposits and in northern Europe

Comparison of fossil teeth & nasal horn of Iguanadon and, 13, lower jaw & teeth of modern Iguana (Mantell). From William Buckland Geology and Mineralogy London 1836. This book is one of the Bridgewater Treatises

Deer Pursued by Dogs (Chevreuil poursuivi par des chiens) 1725 Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755/French) Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen

The Valley With Does Le Val Aux Biches C. 1877 Gustave Courbet (1819-1877 French) Oil On Canvas Christie's Images, London, England

Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), Eurasian species of deer., From A History of British Quadrupeds by William MacGillivray, (Edinburgh, 1838), one of the volumes in William Jardine's Naturalist's Library series. Hand-coloured engraving.

Common Cormorant 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851/American) Engraving The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Common American Swan 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851/American) Engraving The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Mallard Duck 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851/American) Colored Engraving The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Roseate Spoonbill Plate from The Birds of America 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851/American) Colored Engraving The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

Band Tailed Pigeon 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851 American) The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Black-Throated Guillemot, Nobbed-Billed Auk, Curled-Crested Auk, Horned-Billed Guillemot John James Audubon (1785-1851 American) The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Black Skimmer or Razor-billed Shearwater 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851 American) Colored engraving The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Blue Crane or Heron 1827-1838 John James Audubon (1785-1851 American) The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA