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Natural HistoriesSpecimens from the series

See some of the Natural History Museum specimens discussed in Natural Histories.

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Archie the female giant squid

© The Trustees of NHM, London

  • The skin of Happy Jerry the mandrill
  • Mandrill
  • Great white shark jaws
  • Golden birdwing butterflies
  • Giant squid in the Natural History Museum tank room
  • Archie the female giant squid
  • Giant squid tentacle
  • A giant squid's beak
  • The skull of a Barbary lion found at the Tower of London
  • Side view of one of the Barbary lion skulls from the Tower of London
  • Darwin's corals
  • Dippy the Diplodocus at the Natural History Museum
  • Iguanadon sculptures at Crystal Palace Park
  • Cranium and tusks of a Pleistocene mammoth found at Ilford, Essex
  • Miniature sculpture of a mammoth made from mammoth ivory
  • The mysterious Syrian ostrich egg
  • The skull of a cave bear
  • Edward Lear's illustration of a scarlet macaw
  • Mummified crocodile
  • A glass model of a sea anemone by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschk
  • Carved casque of a helmeted hornbill
  • Carved casque of a helmeted hornbill
  • Carved casque of a helmeted hornbill
  • Tree by Tania Kovats
  • Gold and silver metallic beetles
  • Rhinoceros cockroach
  • Dressed fleas
  • Blue whale and gray whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum
  • Thames whale skeleton

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