{"title":"Extinct Animals","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscover museum-quality giclée prints featuring extraordinary creatures from the natural world of the past. From the iconic dodo and elusive Tasmanian tiger to the fossilised remains of ancient marine reptiles such as the ichthyosaurus, this collection brings together vintage natural history illustrations that offer a window into lost worlds and the remarkable diversity of life that once inhabited our planet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"0616-dodo","title":"Dodo","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from Volume I of M. Houttuyn’s \u003cem\u003eVerzameling van uitlandische en zeldzame Vogelen\u003c\/em\u003e, published in Amsterdam in 1772.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54450769953105,"sku":"0616-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54450769920337,"sku":"0616-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54450769854801,"sku":"0616-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54450769887569,"sku":"0616-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0616_Portrait1.webp?v=1789423233"},{"product_id":"0082-quagga-zebra-cuvier","title":"Quagga Zebra - Cuvier","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from Volume IV of Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier’s \u003cem\u003eHistoire Naturelle des Mammifères\u003c\/em\u003e, published in Paris in 1824. The print depicts the Quagga, a zebra species whose last known representative died in the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam on August 12th, 1883.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54454924902737,"sku":"0083-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54454924869969,"sku":"0083-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54454924804433,"sku":"0083-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54454924837201,"sku":"0083-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0083_Landscape1.webp?v=1789457593"},{"product_id":"659-ichthyosaurus-fossil","title":"Ichthyosaurus Fossil","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from Thomas Hawkins’ \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Great Sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri\u003c\/em\u003e, published in London in 1840.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Hawkins (1810–1889) was an eccentric, highly passionate English fossil collector and dealer. He amassed one of the finest collections of marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias limestone deposits of Somerset and Dorset (including specimens excavated near Lyme Regis, closely connected to Mary Anning’s legendary finds). He eventually sold his vast collection to the British Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiving during the early Jurassic Period, the Ichthyosaurus (literally \"fish-lizard\") is one of natural history's most famous examples of convergent evolution. Though a true marine reptile, its streamlined body shape, dorsal stabilizer, and tail architecture perfectly mirrored the modern dolphin or porpoise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54510554808657,"sku":"0659-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54510554775889,"sku":"0659-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54510554710353,"sku":"0659-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54510554743121,"sku":"0659-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0659_Landscape1.webp?v=1789768890"},{"product_id":"0758-skeleton-of-great-auk","title":"Great Auk Skeleton","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from \u003cem\u003eNaturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas\u003c\/em\u003e (Natural History of the Birds of Central Europe), created by Johann Andreas Naumann and his son Johann Friedrich Naumann. It is considered the foundational masterpiece of modern European ornithology. First published in the early 19th century and later expanded into a famous 12-volume edition between 1897 and 1905, this monumental work revolutionized the study of birds by focusing on field observations of live specimens in their natural habitats rather than dead museum skins. The series is globally renowned for its extraordinary visual detail, featuring over 440 brilliant, hand-engraved color plates by master artists like John Gerrard Keulemans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis historical scientific illustration shows a reconstructed skeleton of the Great Auk (\u003cem\u003eAlca impennis\u003c\/em\u003e), a large, flightless seabird of the North Atlantic that was hunted to extinction by humans in the mid-19th century. Published in Volume 12 of the iconic ornithological encyclopedia Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (1897–1905), the plate features German text noting that the skeleton was assembled from subfossil bones collected on Funk Island (off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada), following an original 1875 anatomical drawing by the English naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton. Anatomically, the drawing perfectly captures the unique evolutionary traits of this extinct species, showcasing its dense, heavy bones, an elongated keel on the sternum (breastbone) for powerful underwater diving, drastically reduced wing bones useless for flight, and a massively deep, grooved bill characteristic of the true alcids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Great Auk was historically known as the \"Northern penguin,\" and it was actually the original owner of the name. When European explorers first encountered these flightless, black-and-white birds in the North Atlantic, they named them \"penguins\"—a term likely derived from the Welsh words pen (head) and gwyn (white) due to the large white patches on the bird's head. Later, when sailors traveled to the Southern Hemisphere, they found completely unrelated birds that looked remarkably similar due to convergent evolution. They applied the same name to these new creatures, and after the Great Auk was driven to extinction by overhunting in 1844, the word \"penguin\" became exclusively associated with the southern species. To differentiate them in historical records, the extinct bird was retroactively dubbed the \"Northern penguin,\" a legacy that lives on today in its official scientific genus name, Pinguinus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54661480251729,"sku":"0758-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54661480218961,"sku":"0758-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54661480153425,"sku":"0758-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54661480186193,"sku":"0758-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0758_Portrait1.webp?v=1790102944"},{"product_id":"0745-pleisiosaurus-fossil","title":"Pleisiosaurus Fossil","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from Thomas Hawkins’ \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Great Sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri\u003c\/em\u003e, published in London in 1840.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Hawkins (1810–1889) was an eccentric, highly passionate English fossil collector and dealer. He amassed one of the finest collections of marine reptile fossils from the Lower Lias limestone deposits of Somerset and Dorset. He eventually sold his vast collection to the British Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlesiosaurus was an extinct marine reptile that thrived during the Early Jurassic period. Though it lived alongside dinosaurs, it belonged to a distinct group of aquatic reptiles. Famous for its broad body, short tail, and extraordinarily long neck, it navigated the oceans using four large, paddle-like flippers, moving through the water in a sweeping motion that resembled underwater flight. It utilized its needle-sharp, interlocking teeth as a trap to catch fish and squid, while its air-breathing nature forced it to regularly surface for oxygen. Its fossil history is closely tied to pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning, who discovered the first complete skeleton along the coast of England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54661496078673,"sku":"0745-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54661496045905,"sku":"0745-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54661495980369,"sku":"0745-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54661496013137,"sku":"0745-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0745_Landscape1.webp?v=1790102179"},{"product_id":"0029-tasmanian-tiger","title":"Tasmanian Tiger","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from \u003cem\u003eThe Mammals of Australia,\u003c\/em\u003e a seminal three-volume scientific masterwork written and published by English naturalist John Gould between 1845 and 1863. Originally traveling to Australia in 1838 to study birds, Gould became so fascinated by the continent's unique mammalian fauna that he expanded his research to document them. His field assistant, John Gilbert, collected 142 of the featured specimens across remote territories before his tragic death during an expedition. While Gould directed the project and authored the text, the book's 182 famed, hand-colored lithographic plates were executed primarily by artist Henry Constantine Richter, building upon initial sketches by John and his late wife, Elizabeth Gould.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe comprehensive work covers Australia's distinct wildlife across three biological groups: egg-laying monotremes, marsupials, and placental species. Gould provided the global scientific community with some of its first accurate, lifelike illustrations of iconic animals like the platypus, kangaroo, koala, and wombat. Beyond its artistic beauty, the collection serves as a vital historical record today. Because it documents Australia's ecosystems prior to extensive European agricultural expansion, it includes invaluable scientific drawings of several species that have since become extinct or critically endangered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate documents one of the most famous of these; the Tasmanian tiger, \u003cem\u003eThylacinus cynocephalus. \u003c\/em\u003eIt remains the most frequently copied and iconic visual depiction of the extinct apex predator. Richter's famous plate features a lifelike pair of thylacines modeled after the very first live specimens to arrive at the Regents Park Zoo in London in 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGould's accompanying text proved to be shockingly prophetic. He explicitly warned that as the island of Tasmania became populated and roads cut through its primitive forests, extermination would take full sway, and the creature would ultimately become \"recorded as an animal of the past\" just like the wolf in Britain. This prediction became reality when colonial bounty hunting and habitat loss drove the species to extinction, culminating in the death of the last known captive thylacine at Hobart Zoo in 1936. Today, Gould's magnificent print has transcended its original role as a scientific illustration to become an acclaimed masterpiece of natural history art, famously preserved in national galleries and even adapted onto iconic regional symbols like the University of Tasmania archives and local Cascade beer labels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54664627126609,"sku":"0029-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54664627093841,"sku":"0029-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54664627028305,"sku":"0029-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54664627061073,"sku":"0029-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0029_Landscape1.webp?v=1789798108"},{"product_id":"451-japanese-sea-lion","title":"Japanese Sea Lion","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from Volume V of Philip Franz von Siebold’s \u003cem\u003eFauna Japonica.\u003c\/em\u003e It consists of a five-volume series of zoological monographs published serially between 1833 and 1850 that served as the West’s first comprehensive introduction to the wildlife of isolationist Edo-period Japan. The foundational text and vast natural history collections were amassed by German physician and botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold and his assistant Heinrich Bürger during their deployment to the Dutch trading post of Dejima in Nagasaki harbor between 1823 and 1829.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in French, the volumes were compiled and scientifically categorized by prominent Dutch naturalists at the Leiden Museum—including Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Hermann Schlegel, and Wilhem de Haan—while the striking, highly accurate lithographic plates were largely based on paintings by talented Japanese artist-naturalists like Kawahara Keiga. This extraordinary cross-cultural collaboration systematically documented the archipelago's unique vertebrates and invertebrates for the very first time in a Western European language, establishing a vital historical bridge between Western science and the long-hidden natural world of Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the label on this plate referencing Steller, modern researchers have determined that this plate actually illustrates the now-extinct Japanese sea lion (\u003cem\u003eZalophus japonicus\u003c\/em\u003e). Highly abundant during the 19th century along the beaches of the Japanese archipelago, these sea lions were heavily hunted for their valuable oil, internal organs, and fur skin, which ultimately led to their complete disappearance by the mid-20th century. The elegant lithograph captures the animal's uniform, ash-brown aquatic body contour alongside a meticulous anatomical inset of its eye, exemplifying the synthesis of traditional Japanese artistry and rigid Western scientific documentation that made the Fauna Japonica a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":54665008218449,"sku":"0451-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":54665008185681,"sku":"0451-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":54665008120145,"sku":"0451-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":54665008152913,"sku":"0451-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0451_Landscape1.webp?v=1789800579"},{"product_id":"stellers-sea-cow","title":"Steller's Sea Cow","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiclee reprint of an original lithograph from Leopold Joseph Fitzinger’s \u003cem\u003eBilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen\u003c\/em\u003e, published in Vienna in 1860 and produced by the Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office. This atlas was compiled to provide a comprehensive, accessible reference of global mammal species for both naturalists and the general public. The accompanying text tracks contemporary zoological taxonomy, documenting the anatomical variations, behaviors, and environmental ranges of the classified mammalian families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis print illustrates Steller's sea cow (\u003cem\u003eHydrodamalis gigas\u003c\/em\u003e), a massive marine mammal related to modern manatees and dugongs that was driven to extinction by European fur traders in 1768, less than three decades after its scientific discovery. The illustration features the animal resting its massive body on a coastal rock formation, accurately capturing historical descriptions of its thick, bark-like skin (hence Borkenthier or \"bark-animal\") and its distinct, down-turned snout used for feeding on kelp. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archival Finds Prints","offers":[{"title":"Photo - 13cm x 18cm","offer_id":55569794597201,"sku":"0915-Photo","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A5 - 14.8cm x 21 cm","offer_id":55569794629969,"sku":"0915-A5","price":14.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A4 - 21cm x 29,7cm","offer_id":55569794662737,"sku":"0915-A4","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 - 29,7cm x 42cm","offer_id":55569794695505,"sku":"0915-A3","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/files\/0915_sellerseacow_Landscape1.webp?v=1793455934"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1046\/0977\/5953\/collections\/0616_Portrait1.webp?v=1792827185","url":"https:\/\/archivalfinds.com\/fr\/collections\/extinct-animals.oembed","provider":"Archival Finds Prints","version":"1.0","type":"link"}