(Source: unnaturalist)
(Source: unnaturalist)
Ok, here’s a less-mean-looking animal. I think this flamingo is the American Flamingo, just from a quick glance at the features and size. They’re Caribbean birds, living on the islands and through the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Interestingly, they also live on the Galapagos islands.
Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina.Translation of works by George Shaw, 1742.
The Macabre & Beautifully Grotesque
Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) shocking photography deals with such themes as death, corpses (or pieces of them), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. His complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings. Because of the transgressive nature of the contents of his pictures, his works have been labeled exploitative and have sometimes shocked public opinion.
(Source: peltermag.wordpress.com, via biomedicalephemera)
floral taxidermy by Cedric Laquieze
Reptile skeletons and skulls from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1840.
(via scientificillustration)
M.E. Bloch
From Bloch’s National History of Fish
1785-87
(via scientificillustration)
(Source: ummmcolleen)
Racaphore de Reinwardt
Illustration from ‘Erpétologie Générale, ou,
Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles’
by AMC Duméril & G Bibron, 1854.
(Source: jontyblog)
Watercolour of Miscellanea
Aldrovandi collection
(by littlealgaelover)
