Save The Images: Extinct Animals

These diaries are archival, for the transition to WordPress. Please only comment to add images that match the group, or to add information about an image.

Once we are in WordPress, there will be no site Image Library.  But you will be able to tag-search this group of diaries, select the category you are looking for, and click, download, then upload the image you want into the diary or comment you are working on.

If you do not want one of your personal images to be archived for use, contact the diarist.

most of these will be artist’s reconstructions, of course.

1.     fossilized dinosaur with feathered wings

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3.  Bob Nicholls

4.     The Far Side

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7.     Allosaurus skull (original), on display at the Quarry Visitor Center at Dinosaur National Monument. Specimen DNM 2560, discovered at Carnegie Quarry in 1924   Jens Lallensack, creative commons

8.     COMPOSITE IMAGE - Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (L) & a photograph of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (R).  A bizarre creature that lived in China 120 million years ago had a dinosaur's head and bird's body.  See SWNS story SWSCbird.  It sheds fresh light on how our feathered friends evolved from the biggest animals that ever roamed land.  Named Cratonavis zhui, the chicken-sized hybrid had long shoulder blades, or scapulas, and claws.  But its large skull was shaped in an almost identical way to that of T Rex and other meat-eating theropods.  The find fills in some of the gaps as to how some dinosaurs evolved into birds.  

Attribution: ZHAO Chuang/WANG Min / SWNS

9.    Artistic reconstruction of Jeholornis in life.  See SWNS story SWSCfossil.  Birds really are living dinosaurs, according to new research.  A bizarre creature that lived 120 million years ago was a cross between them, say scientists.  Jeholornis had blue, brown and grey feathers, a long tail and small teeth - inherited from its reptile ancestors.  Scientists have reconstructed its skull for the first time -  revealing a brain made for smelling and eyes for daylight.  Co author Professor Matteo Fabbri, of the Field Museum, Chicago, said: "The morphology is transitional, in between what we see in non-avian dinosaurs and what we see in modern birds.   Michael Rothman

10.      Museum Dinosaur Diorama

11.     redbubble.com

12.    Illustration courtesy of Andrey Atuchin, released by VA Tech.  

Africa’s oldest known dinosaur discovered

13.    rare Canadian dinosaur fossil   Lisa St. Coeur Cormier

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15.    Fossilized animal killed by glass beads (tektites) from the Chicxulub meteor impact that ended the Cretaceous and killed all of he dinosaurs except some birds.   Robert DePalma

16.    American Museum of Natural History

17.    Dinosaur embryo inside fossilized egg.  Lida Xing, et al.

18.    Darla Zelenitsky via  https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries

19.      ankylosaurus

20.    A 220 million-year-old dinosaur footprint found by a 4-year-old girl on a beach in Wales.   National Museum, Wales

21.    This image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows a lifelike dinosaur, part of the “Walking with Dinosaurs, the Arena Spectacular,” in New York. The show, based on an award-winning BBC Television series, travels 200 million years from Triassic to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and features 10 species of dinosaur. It is produced by Global Creatures, the Australian company behind the new musical “King Kong,” the Tony Award-winning ''War Horse” and “How To Train Your Dragon.”

22.    CT scan of the skull of the smallest known dinosaur, Oculudentavis khaungraae.   Li Gang, cnn.com

23.    dinosaur trackway   randym

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27.    Raptor sculpture and motorized T-Rex in front of the Academy of Science.   owktree

28.   Dodo reconstruction (Raphus cucullatus) reflecting new research at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.   Ballista, creative commons

29.    By Baker; E.J. Keller. - Report of the Smithsonian Institution. 1904from the Smithsonian Institution archives. Published exampleother information: [1]Additional information: Female thylacine (front) with juvenile male offspring (rear). (30 September 2020). "A Catalogue of the Thylacine captured on film". Australian Zoologist 41 (2): 143–178. DOI:10.7882/AZ.2020.032., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58331

30.     Elephant Bird, Art by Arthur A. WEber, National Geographic

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33.   Bell Museum

34.     MNNdotcom

35.   sabertoothed tiger

36.    Dire Wolf.   La Brea Tar Pits Museum

37.    https://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/factsheets/extinctlonghorned-ancientbison

38.    Sculpture of a megalodon (extinct giant shark)  in the Museum of Evolution in Puebla, Mexico

39.    the quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebra.  Now extinct, this is the only specimen photographed alive.

40.    Restoration of the aurochs based on a bull skeleton from Lund and a cow skeleton from Cambridge, with chart of characteristic external features of the aurochs

41.     The extinct Tasmanian tiger

42.    Great Auk skeleton, Canadian Museum of Nature.   durocher1766, creative commons

43.    American lion, Panthera leo atrox (extinct, Pleistocene megafauna); reconstruction. Dantheman9758, wikimedia commons

44.   American lion, Panthera leo atrox (extinct, Pleistocene megafauna); reconstruction.  Sergiodlarosa, creative commons

45.    great auk   wikimedia commons

46.    Terror bird (Titanis walleri) with prey, artwork. This extinct, flightless bird .lived in North and South America approximately 2-5 million years ago. It stood .2.5 metres tall weighed roughly 150 kilograms. It belonged to the Phorusrhacidae .family     bbc.uk

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