Notable Zoologists Posters & Art Prints
teaching resources for the science classroom and home schoolers.

John James Audubon
b. 4-26-1785; Haiti
d. 1-27-1851; NY

Audubon was an ornithologist (a zoologist specializing in birds), hunter, and artist known today for his illustrations and descriptions of the birds of North America.

• Audubon's Birds of America

Rachel Carson
b. 5-27-1907; Pennsylvania
d. 4-14-1964; Silver Spring, Maryland

“I can remember no time when I wasn't interested in the out-of-doors and the whole world of nature.”

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Georges Cuvier
b. 8-23-1769; France
d. 5-13-1832

Georges Cuvier was a zoologist and palenotologist. His early work demonstrated that extinction of species had occurred despite authorities claims that since God's creation was perfect so the fossils found in Europe, such as the wooly rhinoceros and mammoth, were remains of animals still living in the tropics, because God had no need to delete animals.

• Cuvier print
• Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes: New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts

Charles Darwin
b. 2-12-1809; England
d. 4-19-1882, England

Charles Darwin's scientific observations and theory that all species of life evolved over time from a few common ancestors is the foundation of biology.

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Jean-Henri Fabre
b. 12-22-1823; France
d. 10-11-1915

Jean Henri Fabre is considered to be the “father of modern entomology”, the study of insects.

• Fabre's Book of Insects

Dian Fossey
b. 1-16-1932; SF, CA
d. 12-26-1985; Rwanda

For years Dian Fossey observed gorillas daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda.

She wrote of her experiences in “Gorillas in the Mist” which was later dramatized in a movie of the same name.

Jane Goodall
b. 4-3-1934; London, England

Jane Goodall is a zoologist, primatologist (primates), ethologist (animal behavior), and antropologist (humans) best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Stream National Park.

Ernst Haeckel
b. 2-16-1834; Germany
d. 8-8-1919

Haeckel, an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, named thousands of new species and coined the biological terms phylum, phylogeny, and ecology. He was also a supporter of Charles Darwin.

• Colonial Jellyfish illustration, art print

Thor Heyerdahl
b. 10-6-1914; Norway
d. 4-18-2002; Italy

Zoologist and geographer Thor Heyerdahl is best remembered for his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean by balsa wood and bamboo raft from Peru, South America to the Polynesian Tuamotu Islands.

• Kon-Tiki

Julian Huxley
b. 6-22-1887; London
d. 2-14-1975

Julian Huxley, the grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, was a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, and secretary of the London Zoological Society, as well as the first Director of UNESCO.

Julian Huxley's brothers were author Aldous Huxley and Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Huxley.

Steve Irwin
b. 2-22-1962; Australia
d. 9-4-2006

Steve Irwin, nicknamed “The Crocodile Hunter”, was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. Irwin promoted conservation and environmentalism by sharing his excitement about the natural world.

• Steve and Me: Life with the Crocodile Hunter by Terri Irwin

William Forsell Kirby
b. 1-14-1844; England
d. 11-20-1912

Willam Forsell Kirby was an entomologist whose primary interest was butterflies and moths. He also was gifted with languages translating the Finnish epic Kalevala to English and footnoting Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Arabian Nights.

Jean-Baptist Lamarck
b. 8-1-1744; France
d. 12-28-1829

Lamarck was a naturalist who coined the term invertebrates, was one of the first to use the term biology, and was praised by Charles Darwin in the 3rd edition of The Origin of the Species.

• Lamarck's Open Mind: The Lectures