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Restored figure of the Iguanodon - sketched by Miss Alice B. Woodward, 1895. Creator: Unknown.
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Restored figure of the Iguanodon - sketched by Miss Alice B. Woodward, 1895. 'The animal is shown in the attitude in which it usually walked. The fore limbs are much shorter than the hind limbs, which are very powerful, having three toes to each foot and the same number of joints as in a bird's foot. The ponderous tail no doubt gave support to the animal when in an erect position, and was also used in swimming...A WONDERFUL BIRD-LIKE REPTILE. From Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., P.G.S., of the Natural History Museum [and father of Alice B. Woodward], we have received the following interesting account..."There has just been set up in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, a restoration of the entire skeleton of one of the most remarkable of extinct giants that peopled the earth in the Wealden period...It is seventy years ago since Dr. Mantell first discovered the remains of a huge reptile in the Hastings sandstone, which, from the resemblance in its teeth to a living vegetable-feeding lizard - the Iguana - he named Iguanodon...its fossil footprints on the Hastings sandstone showed that it had only three toes to its foot, and that it must have walked on its hind legs, as it left only a single bipedal track behind".' From "Illustrated London News", 1895.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
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HRM26A08_437
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Droits gérés
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45,9Mo (2,6Mo) / 30,3cm x 38,0cm / 3574 x 4489 (300dpi)