EditorialSilver ring, Classical, ca. 450?400 B.C., Greek, Silver, Length: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm), Gems, Short-beaked, long-legged bird walking with left leg raised. Although the beak is short, the bird represented is likely a heron.
EditorialShort-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, and killer whale, Orcinus orca. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Albert Massard after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Na...
EditorialSilver ring, Classical, ca. 450?400 B.C., Greek, Silver, Length: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm), Gems, Short-beaked, long-legged bird walking with left leg raised. Although the beak is short, the bird represented is likely a heron.
EditorialShort-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, and killer whale, Orcinus orca. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Albert Massard after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Na...
EditorialHourglass dolphin, Lagenorhynchus cruciger, harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, and short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialHarbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena 1, short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis 2, and orca or killer whale, Orcinus orca 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Wei...
EditorialShort-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, and Hyperoodon ampullatus, North Atlantic bottlenose whale. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by...