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Palmate feet – Chilean flamingo. Totipalmate feet – blue-footed booby. Western grebe presenting a lobate foot. Lobate feet – a chick of the Eurasian coot. The great crested grebe. The feet in loons [2] and grebes [2] [7] are placed far at the rear of the body - a powerful accommodation to swimming underwater, [7] but a handicap for walking.
In 1991 the Natural History Museum returned the works to the Society for valuation, and on 20 October 1993 the Society offered them for sale by auction at Sotheby's in London, where they were acquired by Goh Geok Khim, founder of the brokerage firm GK Goh, for S$3 million. Goh donated the drawings to the National Museum of Singapore in 1995.
Singapore has about 65 species of mammals, 390 species of birds, 110 species of reptiles, 30 species of amphibians, more than 300 butterfly species, [1] 127 dragonfly species, [2] and over 2,000 recorded species of marine wildlife. [3] [4]
Adding to this conundrum are fossilized footprints of bird-like tracks that are 210 million years old—a good 60 million years before the arrival of the genus Archaeopteryx, one of the oldest ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Singapore.The avifauna of Singapore include a total of 450 species, 35 of which have been introduced by humans. [1]This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2023b edition. [2]
A new analysis of three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years reveals that they were created by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s.
Gold armlets and rings from Fort Canning: East Javanese style, found at Fort Canning Hill: 1928 [1] 7: Portrait of Sir Stamford Raffles: Portrait of the founder of Singapore by noted painter Xu Beihong: 1939 [1] 8: Natural history drawings of flora and fauna: Collection of 477 drawings commissioned by William Farquhar: 19th century [1] 9: A ...
Plate 5 in: Edwards, George (1743) A Natural History Of Uncommon Birds : And Of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Part I, Printed for the author at the College of Physicians . Downloaded from the Biological Heritage Library website here. The scan was contributed to the BHL by the National Library Board, Singapore. Permission