Images Dated 2012

Female Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) in flight

Female Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) in flight. Returning to its nest. Pousada Currupira d'Araras, south west Brazil

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Young Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing and trying to balance in shallow water along

Young Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing and trying to balance in shallow water along the Bernard Spit, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North Slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska, October 2011. Sequence 7/12

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Lithograph with later hand colouring combining two of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins'

Lithograph with later hand colouring combining two of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' six wall posters 'Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals' produced for the Department of Science and Art in 1862. It includes nearly all the dinosaurs known up to that date. From left 1 & 2 Iguanodon, 3 Hylaeosaurus, 4&5 Megalosaurus. On cliffs in background are pterosaurs (not dnosaurs). In 1855 Waterhouse Hawkins produced lifesize reconstructions, with the scientific help of Richard Owen, for the gardens of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. When that project was curtailed he continued to use the designs for artwork such as this, also producing scale models of the sculptures for sale. Later he travelled to the USA where he began work on a similar project in New York's Central Park using more complete skeletal remains of dinosaurs recently discovered there

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