PIX4573242: Life on an Exoplanet - Extraterrestrial life - Artist's view of alien life forms where the boundary between animal and plant life appears less obvious than on Earth. Given the mind - boggling variety of life on our own planet, it's difficult to presume that life hasn't also made a home on at least some of the trillions of other worlds believed to inhabit the universe. This image suggests a world where the distinction between animal and plant life on the macro scale isn't so straightforward as it is on Earth / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573306: Mule et quagga ou couagga - Hybrid mule (stallion and female butt) 3 and extinct quagga, Equus quagga quagga 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Johann Christian Wilhelm Waitz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573381: Large lamprey, Planner lamprey, sole, sole zebree and common murene - Sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus 1, European brook lamprey, Lampetra planeri 2, Dover sole, Solea solea 3, sea zebra, Zebrias zebra 4, and moray eel, Muraena helena 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573434: Common centrine, sea angel (or burget), shark ha (or tope) and white baldfish (or white burbot) - Angular rough shark, Oxynotus centrina 1 (vulnerable), angelshark, Squatina squatina 2 (critically endangered), tope, Galeorhinus galeus 3 (vulnerable), and angler or monkfish, Lophius piscatorius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573486: Common carp (or mirror carp), common barbel (or river barbel), pike perch, common perch (or European) - Carp, Cyprinus carpio 1,2, barbel, Barbus barbus 3, pike-perch, Sander lucioperca 4, and European perch, Perca fluviatilis 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574324: Lesser spot-nosed monkey, Cercopithecus petaurista 1, grivet, Chlorocebus aethiops 2,3, Javan surili, Presbytis comata endangered 4, Simia aygula, and tufted capuchin, Sapajus apella fatuellus 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574645: Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus, male 1, female 2, eggs deposited in rotten oak a, 4-year-old larva b, nymph c, rhinoceros beetle, Megasoma actaeon Scarabaeus actaeon 3,4, and European rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes nasicornis 5,6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574824: Hammer oyster (hammer oyster), Malleus malleus 1, cone shell varieties, Conus cedonulli (Granada cone) 2, Conus ammiralis (cone checkerier) 3-5, precious wentletrap (scalaire precieuse), Epitonium scalare 4, and common wentltrap (common scalar), Epitonium clathrus 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574826: Sandfish skink (sand fish or skink officinale), Scincus scincus 1, sand lizard (agile lezard or strains), Lacerta agilis, male 2, female 3, and roughtail rock agama (agame stellion), Laudakia stellio 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575041: Oleander hawk-moth (pink laurel sphinx, butterfly and caterpillar), Daphnis nerii 1, and caterpillar on oleander flower, Nerium oleander, and spurge hawk-moth (euphorbic sphinx, butterfly and caterpillar), Hyles euphorbiae 2, and caterpillar on leafy spurge, Euphorbia esula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575166: Wattled jacana, (Jacana noir) Jacana jacana 1, northern jacana, (Jacana of Mexico) Jacana spinosa 2, African Jacana, (jacana a breast doree) Actophilornis africanus 3, land rail, (Rale des genets) Crex crex 4, buff-banded rail, (Rale tiklin) Gallirale shelippensis 5, and snowy athbill, (White Chionis) Chionis albus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575260: Chinese insects: milkweed locust (grasshopper variete), Phymateus morbillosus morbillosus 1, jewel beetles (coleoptere variete), Chrysochroa vittata 2, Chrysochroa ocellata 3, Chinese scarab beetle (scarabee variete), Scarabaeus chinensis 4, headless golden orb-web spider, Nephila pilipes 5, head 5a, and Chinese peranthus butterfly (neon butterfly), Papilio peranthus 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575308: Lake trout (common trout), Salmo lacustris 1, whitefish (blue shade), Coregonus wartmanni 2, lake char (arctic char), Salvelinus umbla 3, maraena whitefish (coregone marene), Coregonus maraena 4, and whitefish (white coregone), Coregonus albula 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575323: Pollack (yellow spot), Pollachius pollachius 1, ling (white ling), Molva molva 2, burbot (burbot), Lota lota 3, and oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575448: Carpet python (python tapis), Morelia spilota 1, scarlet snake, Cemophora coccinea 2, red-bellied black snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus 3, and Coluber ocellatus 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575470: Cape girdled lizard (African saurian), Cordylus cordylus 1, Cuvier's Madagascar swift (Madagascar lezard), Oplurus cuvieri 2, mountain horned lizard (lezard a horn), Phrynosoma orbiculare 3, Jamaican anole (Jamaique lezard), Anolis garmani 4, and green anole (green anoollis carl) inensis 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575507: Harbour porpoise (harbour porpoise), Phocaena phocaena 1, beluga whale (beluga, beluga or white whale, white dolphin or white porpoise), Delphinapterus leucas 2, and northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon boreal or arctic, Hyperoodon ampullatus 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575530: Chinese pangolin, Manis pentadactyla, nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, armadillo species, Dasypus octodecim cinctus, Malacca hedgehog, Erinaceus malaccenaceus sis, and Malayan porcupine, Hystrix brachyura. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575548: False coral snake (false coral), Anilius scytale 1,2, speckled worm lizard (lezard amphisbene), Amphisbaena fuliginosa 3, and red worm lizard (lezard amphisbene blanc), Amphisbaena alba 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575556: Lantern fly (fulgore lantern), Fulgora laternaria 1, migratory locust, Grillus migratorius 2, European mantis (mantis religiosa 3, common cicada (cicada), Cicada plebeia 4, Hercules beetle (scarabee rhinoceros), Dynastes hercules 5, and cockchafer (common), Melolontha melolontha 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images