Foxes' Library

“The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at the Battle of San Romano” / c. 1455 / Louvre Museum, Paris.

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ruins of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife, Scotland

The preserved hearts of the last known pair of great auks, part of the collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The birds were nesting on the island of Eldey, off the coast of southwest Iceland, when they were killed on June 3rd, 1844. The single egg they'd been incubating at the time was crushed in the process. [ x ]

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Shy Mollymawk (Thalassarche cauta) - photo by JJ Harrison

A Mesopotamian leopard. Date: Late Uruk, Jemdet Nasr period, circa 3300-2900 BCE. Medium: inlaid limestone.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Ferdinand van Kessel, Ansichten aus den vier Weltteilen mit Szenen von Tieren, 17th century

photos: Irawan Subingar, Ekhardt Lietzow, Dubi Shapiro

“A little heartthrob”  The Canadian Goose and Vermilion Flycatcher

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.