Scientific Illustration

Chipmunk

Squirrels and other fur-bearers Boston ;Houghton Mifflin company,c1909. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17350176

laurnie:

meadow vole

(this was a lot more difficult than I had imagined. It looks more like a rat than a vole. I tried to match it up to the skeleton, which stretched its body out a bit. Voles most often just scrunch up into little furry balls!)

biomedicalephemera:

Left: Philippine tarsier - Tarsius philippensis [now Carlito syrichta]
Right: Tarsius fuscus and the Sangihe tarsier (Tarsius sangirensis)

Tarsiers are nocturnal prosimian (“before simians”) primates, and are the only completely carnivorous primate extant. They eat exclusively insects, small reptiles, and small birds, and unlike other primates, don’t eat any fruits or leaves.

Their eyes are as large as their brains, and unlike other prosimians, they do not have a tapetum lucidum (the light-reflecting membrane found in many nocturnal mammals, such as cats). The huge size of the eyeballs and the large section of the brain devoted to eyesight makes up for the lack of tapetum. They also have extraordinary hearing, and combine the two senses to great advantage against insects and animals trying to hide. in the dense rainforests of southeast Asia.

Learn More True Facts about the Tarsier.

Saugethiere vom Celebes- und Philippinen-Archipel vol I. A. B. Meyer, 1896.

(via theolduvaigorge)

A picture i did a while ago. Just trying to capture  the details in ink. Currently working on a wolf.

Thanks for the submission little-hands-make!

The pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus)

From: Tierbau und tierleben in ihrem zusammenhang betrachtet by Dr. Richard Hesse (1910)

Scientific Illustration portfolio by Marcos Oliveira - Nature, History, Archaeology and Ethnology

http://natdrawings.blogspot.co.uk/

lindsayholladay:

American pika (Ochotona princeps) - gouache on illustration board 10x15 in. Reference material courtesy www.naturespicsonline.com

Head of Midas imperator now called Saguinus imperator - The emperor tamarin

Monkey from the Amazon Region Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1907)

allysahallett:

Weekly sketch 1., complete: Big horn sheep skull study. 

Lesson: It is often best to let light define, rather than lines.

WIP

compendium-of-beasts:

Morse. (Walrus)

NYPL