Scientific Illustration

The Descent of an Illustration - why the wing of the extinct Hoopoe Starling (Fregilupus varius) was used as a model for a textbook illustration.

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Info graphic about bird flight. Watercolor, Pen, Photoshop

Organs of circulation of the Southern Rockhopper Penguin - Eudyptes chrysocome

Report on the Anatomy of the Spheniscidæ collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-1876

Ventral view of the superficial muscles of the breast and wing of the right side of a whooping crane.

The myology of the whooping crane Grus americana by Harvey I. Fisher and Donald C. Goodman

Muscles of Eudyptes chrysocome - the Southern Rockhopper Penguin

Report on the Anatomy of the Spheniscidæ collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-1876

Dorsal view of the superficial musculature of the right shoulder and wing of the whooping crane.

The myology of the whooping crane Grus americana by Harvey I. Fisher and Donald C. Goodman

Eudyptes pachyrhynchus - Fiordland Penguin. Dorsal views of superficial and second layer of muscles of the right wing.

From: A Comparative Study of the Appendicular Musculature of Penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes)

Bird wings