The Photo Archives has an extensive collection of zoological images form the past and the present.
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Daily News Abyssinian Expedition members, left to right, C. Suydam Cutting, Jack Baum, unidentified, Louis A. Fuertes, Alfred Bailey.Credit Information:
Zebra diorama detail.Credit Information:
Scarab beetles, Dymusia ratidula, showing diversity of species. Credit Information:
Bahama Islands reef fishes diorama group including tiger shark and sucking fish.Credit Information:
Rocky Mountain mule deer diorama.Credit Information:
Flounder coloration changes with checkerboard; different backgrounds.Credit Information:
Tokay Gecko, left hind foot, Gekkonidae family.Credit Information:
Asian Leopard Group Diorama, Central India.Credit Information:
Rocky Mountain Goat diorama, Oreamnos americana.Credit Information:
Colonel J.H. Patterson and dead lion propped up by sticks.Credit Information:
Wandering Spider. Harris Loan Center case.Credit Information:
Squirrels. Harris Loan Center case.Credit Information:
Fish specimens in alcohol jars.Credit Information:
Drawer of butterfly specimens from Insect Collections.Credit Information:
Earwig. Robotic insect inhabiting the Underground Adventure exhibit.Credit Information:
Several drawers in the collections area containing tanagers, birds of North and South America.Credit Information:
17-year cicada with open wings.Credit Information:
Cabinet, shell specimens. Top Drawer: dry collection of Wing Oyster. Pteria species. Bottom Drawer: dry collection of Pacific Pearl Oyster, Pinctada margaritifera.Credit Information:
Mollusk. Shell collected circa 1762-1763. T. insulaechorab.Credit Information:
Leopard frog. First specimen collected by first curator in Amphibians and Reptiles. Zoology Department specimen.Credit Information:
Various Bird eggs. Grouping of 30 different species.Credit Information:
Giant Panda diorama.Credit Information:
Carl Akeley with bandaged arm and dead leopard that he killed with his bare hands. 1896.Credit Information:
Lt. Col. John H. Patterson in military uniform. He shot and captured the two Man Eaters of Tsavo in 1898.Credit Information:
Bushman the Gorilla.Credit Information:
Hawk moth. Credit Information:
Staff preparator with specimen of alligator gar fish, Lepisoteus tristoechus, LEPISOSTEIDAE family. Field Columbian MuseumCredit Information:
The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo diorama. Credit Information:
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