039September 20, 2020

This month we had the opportunity to exhibit our modern models of ammonoids as well as some of our historical models of extinct vertebrates in the spacious shop of Rost und Gold. In this amazing Zurich salesroom and event location inbetween all the lamps, furniture and objects from baroque to industrial age especially our new marvelous model lines of ammonoid art wares felt like at home.

020June 8, 2016

The «labyrinthodont» amphibian Mastodontosaurus JAEGER, 1828 [Labyrinthodon OWEN, 1842 (1842a-c)], a giant Mesozoic temnospondyl, was at first reconstructed for a long time as enormous toad or frog with the mouth and dentition of a lizard.

019June 7, 2016

Iguanodon MANTELL, 1825 (Ornithopoda, Ornithischia) is the first herbivorous dinosaur that was scientifically described.

017April 10, 2016

Plesiosaurs were typical marine reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods that were relatively lifelike depicted even in early scientific literature.

014March 25, 2016

Arthur Éloffe was born in 1826 in Vesoul, Franche-Comté (Freigrafschaft Burgund), France. He was a trained taxidermist and ran a naturalist preparatory business as well as a small school in the Rue de l'Ecole de Médecine 20, Paris.

015March 25, 2016

Henry Augustus Ward (1834 to 1906) was an academic who had a variety of educational experiences including studies at various establishments in the United States and the Paris School of Mines (LAMBRECHT & QUENSTEDT 1938).

013March 24, 2016

Ichthyosaur fossils were first interpreted as being remains of fish, crocodiles, lizards, dolphins, sea lions or «sea-dragons». ­

010November 15, 2015

In the middle of the 19th century life-size sculptures of large to giant extinct animals of the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras created by the English sculptor and natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807 to 1889) were arranged in the Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, South London, for the world's first prehistoric park (LAMBRECHT & QUENSTEDT 1938).