Scientific Illustration

magnetocurious:

Bnghhh blast from the past, I did these sketches for a macropalaeontology class when I studied abroad in New Zealand and promptly lost them upon returning home.  Gotta find the originals and scan them properly one of these days.

(I used to be able to draw, really.)

sarahzeese:

Some drawings I did for Rehua (a maori proverb as a short comic)

heaveninawildflower:

 Colour plate of New Zealand tree Alectryon excelsus Gaertn., “Titoki”, Sapindaceae (1889) by Sarah Featon (1848-1927).

http://jardimformoso.blogspot.com/2009/03/sarah-featon-new-zealand-flora.html.

Wikimedia.

heaveninawildflower:

 Entelea arborescens, Whau, Cork tree, New Zealand, watercolour by

Sarah Featon (1848-1927).

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx?advanced=colProProductionMakers%3a%22Featon%2c+Sarah%22+colCollectionGroup%3aCH. Wikimedia.

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centuriespast:

Moas of Prehistoric New Zealand
1827 - 1894

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins 
British, 1807 - 1894

Princeton University Art Museum

I was luck enough to handle some Moa bones last week:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99278910@N00/sets/72157630655824370/

museumofnaturalhistory:

Squalodon Orca of the Oligocene 2012 (by Traumador)

(via )

lostbeasts:

prehistoric-birds:

Illustration of the type specimen of Megalapteryx didinus, the Upland Moa. The bird’s remains, remarkable for their preserved soft tissue, were found at Queenstown, New Zealand in 1876. 

(Image: Transactions of the Zoological Society, 1883)

beauuutiful

dendroica:

Hutton’s Rail by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Supplement to the ‘Birds of New Zealand’ /.
London :The author,1905..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39631570

geo-ebooks:

Bones of right foot of the extinct bird Moa (New Zealand)

Illustration from A pictorial atlas of fossil remains : consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson’s “Organic remains of a former world,” and Artis’s “Antediluvian phytology” / with descriptions by Gideon Algernon Mantel

source: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97662

Haast’s Kiwi (Apteryx haastii) by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Supplement to the ‘Birds of New Zealand’ /.
London :The author,1905..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39631542