Timeline of zoology

This is a chronologically organized listing of notable zoological events and discoveries.

Lascaux aurochs, Stone Age [ 2 ]
"Blue Monkeys" Bronze Age Akrotiri
Apollo with a sacred crow
Peacock endpapers from the Vienna Dioscurides
Isidoro di siviglia, etimologie ,. Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I
Ploughing with oxen in the 15th century. Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Falconry Manesse Codex , Zürich
Bartholomaeus Anglicus , Vanden proprieteyten der dighen . Haarlem: Jacob Bellaert , 24. December 1485
A comparison of the skeleton of birds and man in Belon's book on birds, 1555
Title plate of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
Ants, spiders and hummingbird. Plate from Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensis
Statue of Buffon in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Route of the First voyage of James Cook
Eulemur mongoz , plate from Johann Schreber's Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes représentés d´après nature
Plaque commemorating Christian Konrad Sprengel
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
A watercolour of HMS Beagle
1842 Plate from Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle by Charles d'Orbigny
Charles Darwin 's 1859 publication On the Origin of Species revolutionised zoology.
Prior to the discovery of a living example in 1938, coelacanths were thought to have been extinct for 65 million years.