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PIX4632789: The First Trees on Earth - Artist View - First Trees - Artist view - 385 million years ago, in the upper Devonian, the first trees began to appear on Earth. In this illustration, the archaeopteris, considered the first tree, is present at different stages of its evolution, with on the left a young specimen of 6 metres, in the centre a tree twice as large, on the right, an even older specimen. At the extreme right, a strain of an old Archaeopteris collapse. 385 million years ago, near the end of the Devonian period, the first trees began to populate the Earth. Considered the first modern trees, the Archaeopteris were a part of the Earth's primitive forests for the next 25 million years. Unlike the trees we know today, Archaeopteris was in fact a primitive fern that reproduced by means of spores instead of seeds. While terrestrial plants had been around for 130 million years prior to Archaeopteris, this was the first plant to solve the biomechanical challenges of supporting and nurturing ever larger sizes, enabling these Archaeopteris to grow to heights of 70 feet and more, over twice the height of the Calamites. In this image, four stages of the life of the Archaeopteris are illustrated. On the far left nearest our vantage point is a young, 20 - foot Archaeopteris, and in the center at twice that height is a medium - aged Archaeopteris, and on the right is a fully mature specimen. Furthest right is the collapsed and decaying trunk of a mature tree, a contribution the biomassy that will eventually become the oil, coal and natural gas we exploit today / Bridgeman Images
ITR4729683: Parc du chateau de Rambouillet, Les Yvelines, Ile de France (Ile-de-France), France. The financier Fleuriau of Armenonville bought the estate of Rambouillet in 1699. It was he who brought the gardens up, especially with the creation of canals and ponds. / Bridgeman Images
GYS4971883: Picardie 114 - Chateau-Thierry (department 02) - Musee Jean de La Fontaine - Illustration of the house of J. de La Fontaine (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4580041: Ice on the Moon - Illustration - Lunar ice - Illustration - Artist's view of ice on the surface of a crater that remains perpetually in the shade of the Sun, near the poles. Water from an encounter with an icy comet has collected in the perpetual shade of a deep crater where the temperature is a constant - 380o F. In 1998, the unmanned Lunar Prospector probe discovered evidence for water ice on the surface of the moon. Some scientists believe that as much as 10 to 300 million tons of ice may reside at the moon's North and South poles. The source of the ice is thought to be from one or more comets that struck the moon's surface four billion years ago. (It is thought that Earth's water may have come from comets as well.) Unfortunately, the moon's small size and lack of an atmosphere caused it to lose almost all of its accumulated water to space. Any water that does remain on the moon would likely be on the poles, hidden in craters and depressions shaded from the Sun / Bridgeman Images
PIX4588331: Mercury Transit in front of the Sun. May 9, 2016 - Mercury Transit. May 9, 2016: The planet Mercury (black dot lower left) passes in front of the Sun. May 9, 2016 - Mercury is located at bottom left as a small, dark, round spot / Bridgeman Images
PIX4569200: Metre Etalon - Place Vendome - Paris - Reference Metre - Paris: One of the last two metallion in Paris, located at 13 place Vendome (75001) / Bridgeman Images
LRI4570144: View of the Monument with Portraits of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln (photography, 1994) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4572860: Binary pulsar and gravitational waves - Binary pulsar and gravitational waves - Artist's view of a gravitational wave generated by a system of two stars a neutron, spreading over the fabric of space - time / Bridgeman Images
PIX4574285: Andromede Galaxy - The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) - The Andromede galaxy is located about 2.3 million light years away from Earth. Two satellite galaxies accompany it: M32 (NGC 221) at the top left of the nucleus, and M110 (NGC 205) at the bottom. Like the lactee path, the Andromede galaxy belongs to the local group, making up about thirty galaxies. M31, the Great galaxy in Andromeda, is a gigantic collection of more than 300 billion stars and is located about 2 million light years from Earth. Companion dwarf elliptical galaxies M32 and M110 are also visible. M31 and its companions are part of our local group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, and M33. The Andromeda Galaxy is headed towards our Milky Way Galaxy and is expected to collide with it and possibly merge into a gigantic elliptical galaxy in about 3 billion years / Bridgeman Images
PIX4591805: Constellation of the male Hydra - Constellation Hydrus - Constellation of the southern hemisphere between the galaxies of the Small and Large Magellan Clouds. The bright star below is Achernar, in the constellation Eridan. Southern hemisphere constellation between the Small and the Large Magellic clouds galaxies. The bright star on the bottom of the image is Achernar, located in the constellation Eridanus / Bridgeman Images
LBY4653548: Cafe de l'Aubette in Strasbourg, designed by Theo van Doesburg (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MEX97313: Stone carving of Quetzalcoatl, on the side of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent (photo) / Bridgeman Images
ORM68887: 1978-87 Tomb figure of a standing attendant/servant, possibly a foreigner connected with the silk route, wearing long robes and a cowl, incised buff earthenware pottery, Chinese, T'ang dynasty, 7th century AD / Bridgeman Images
FIT62530: Head of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, mounted on a later bust, Luna Marble, Alexandrian work, 2nd century AD / Bridgeman Images
CLG252642: Saint-Etienne du Mont church, detail of a window glass depicting Noah's Arch, early 17th century (stained glass) / Bridgeman Images
HGP327952: Medieval minstrels (painted stone), English School, St. Mary's Church, Beverley, (1120 to 1530) East Riding, Yorkshire, UK / Bridgeman Images
MEX139653: The Historical Representation of Culture, south-east view of the central library (photo) / Bridgeman Images
CGA283361: When the Army and People unite as One, Let Us See Who In The World Can Challenge Us, September 1968 (colour litho) / Bridgeman Images
CGA283368: When the Army and the People Unite as One, Let Us See Who In The World Can Challenge Us (colour litho) / Bridgeman Images
IMJ367015: Section from the Temple Scroll, Qumram, c.1st century BC - 1st century AD (parchment) / Bridgeman Images
IMJ367016: Temple Scroll, detail from col. LVI, Qumram, c.1st century BC - 1st century AD (parchment) / Bridgeman Images
JCH308808: Relief carving commemorating the victories of the Shapur II over the Romans, Naqsh-e Rostam (photo) / Bridgeman Images
