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Some sort of Pterodactyl, Natural History Museum, June 2012

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You have to love the exterior of the Natural History Museum in London, aka the British Museum (Natural History). It is decorated with these amazing palaeontological sculptures, brought closer with my long lens.

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Image from page 66 of “A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) … With 6 plates and 88 text-figures” (1909)

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Identifier: guidetofossilmam00brit
Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) … With 6 plates and 88 text-figures
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and sons, limited]
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inthe middle of the Gallery. Several skulls and antlers, toshow their variability, are placed on the top of the Pier-cases,and there are also skulls with jaws in Tier-case 15. Theremains are especially common in the marl at the bottom ofthe Irish peat-bogs, where the animals seem to have perishedwhen the present bogs were either swamps or lakes; andthere is evidence that they were not all exterminated inIreland until comparatively late prehistoric times. Duringrecent years several specimens have been dug up in the Isleof Man, and these probably date back to the time before theIrish Sea was formed. During the Pleistocene period numerous iMAMMALIA. 39 varieties of the species seem to have ranged over the greater Pier-casepart of Europe. Jaws from the Euglish caverns and river- rpg^i^ig.gg^gegdeposits are exhibited in Table-case 10, and there is a male 9, 10.skull (lacking antlers) of the Italian race, Ccrvus euryceros, Stands Q,from Lombardy, in Pier-case 15. A skull with incomplete R.

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Fig. 29.—Skeleton of male Irish Deer (Ccrvus gigantcns), from shell marlbeneath a peat-bog, Ireland ; about one-thirtieth nat. size. (Stand Q.) antlers from Russia is mounted on the top of Pier-case 11.The Pleistocene representatives of the common stag or reddeer, Cervus elcophns, in western Europe were sometimes ofgigantic size, as shown by fragments of antlers from KentsCavern in Table-case 10. Moderately large antlers fromriver-deposits and lake-deposits in the British Isles are 40 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMAES AND BIRDS. Pier-case mounted in Pier-case 15 and on 1 docks fixed to various■^rf o pillars in the Gallery (Fig. 3i>). A specially tine pair of Stands Q,R,

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Some of the mineral finds on display at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.