Sujet
Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus) skeleton, 1830. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus) skeleton, 1830. An extinct genus of elephant from the Pleistocene epoch (2,500,000 to 10,000 years ago) found in fossil deposits and in northern Europe as 30,000 year-old frozen carcasses in melting glaciers. This example, approximately 3m (9ft) high and 5.5m (16ft) long, was discovered in the ice in Siberia in 1799. From The Animal Kingdom by George Leopold Cuvier. (London, 1830).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1830
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B64_421
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
30,0Mo (1,3Mo) / 31,5cm x 23,9cm / 3717 x 2819 (300dpi)