Science or Art? Beautiful Illustrations of Animals From 170 Years Ago - Wired Science
Published in 1844, the Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches contains illustrations of a number of creatures, some of which no longer walk this planet. Among those are thylacines — striped, carnivorous marsupials that went extinct when the last known specimen died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936.
There’s also a glorious dodo bird, though it’s not immediately clear why, since these birds died out at least a century before the book’s publication.
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