LRI4661604: The prophete Muhammad (Mohammed or Muhammad) (570-632) listens to the weeping of a Miniature doe from a Turkish manuscript written by Erzeni, illustrated by Seyyid Suleiman Pasha, recounting the life of Muhammad 18th century. Istanbul, Turkish-Islamic Art Museum, Turkish School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4661737: Lycaenops - Lycaenops is a genus of Gorgonopsian, that is, a therapside (mammalian reptile) that lived 270 million years ago, during the second part of Permian. Its name comes from the Greek and means “wolf face”. It was about 1 metre long. A three-foot-long, 35 pound carnivorous therapsid (mammal-like reptile) of the genus Lycaenops wanders a mountainous Mid-Permian landscape 270 million years ago in what is today South Africa. Vegetation includes various ferns forming ground cover and a large cycad. While reptilian in origin, Lycaenops more resembled a modern wolf with a long and slender skull, wolf-like fangs, and long legs held close to its body which probably enabled it to out-run the small reptiles and dicynodonts it dined on / Bridgeman Images
LRI4661809: Ottoman Empire: “” Portrait of the Ninth Ottoman Sultan Selim I Says the Terrible or the Cruel (1470-1520)”” Miniature from the manuscript “” Human physiognomy (About the Personal Arrangements of Ottomans) by Seyyid Lokman Hussein. (Ms. ty6087 folio 44b), 1579. University Library Istanbul, Ottoman School, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4662115: Camptosaurus - Artist - Camptosaurus (or twisted lezard “”) was a genus of dinosaurs of the order of ornithisdogs. It was up to 6 m tall, weighed about 500 kg and lived in the upper Jurassic and lower cretace (about 160 to 140 million years ago) in England, France and the United States. In the sky fly two pterosaurs. Plant-eating ornithischian dinosaurs of the genus Camptosaurus graze in a forest of cycads and ferns 160 million years ago in what is today Wyoming. In the cloudy sky above a pair of pterosaurs soar by. Adult Camptosaurus grew to 26 feet long, nearly seven feet tall at the hip, and weighed over 1,500 pounds. These dinosaurs had sturdy beaks in addition to closely packed teeth which would have helped them to dine on tough Jurassic vegetation. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4662582: Shuvuuia - Shuvuuia deserti was a small theropod dinosaur from Cretace discovered in Mongolia. Shuvuuia deserti is a little cretaceous dinosaur which belonged to a group called the mononychosaurs, a name meaning “” single-clawed reptiles””, referring to the single digit on the arms / Bridgeman Images