Hippos of the Thames

The discovery in Victorian London of the remains of ancient animals – and a fascination with their modern descendants – helped to transform people’s ideas of the deep past, as Chris Manias reveals.

Hippopotamus amphibius, an illustration from William Jardine’s The Naturalist’s Library, 1833-43.

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