Evolution

Here are some of my favourite photos made by Patrick Gries for the book Evolution.
I only picked ten, but every picture inside is really beautiful and also there are interesting texts written by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu. Everyone should take a look at this book!

                                                    Mandrill (Papio Sphinx)

African elephant (Loxodenta africana) Early findings of these skulls are probably responsible for the myth of the cyclops, because the large nostrils in the middle of the skull, were held for huge eye sockets.

Cane toad (Bufo marinus)

Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)

Babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa) some older male die because their own upper canines slowly grow through the skin back into the skull and finally into the brain.

Warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus)

                                                Lamnidae (Isurus oxyrinchus)

                                                     Crotalus (Crotalus sp.)

Turbot (Psetta maxima) whwn thw little fish hatch from the eggs they have one eye on each side. Only in the running of the growth one eye moves over to the other side, because the growth of the skull runs asymmetrically. A few other bones disappear ,deform and show up. In the end the fish goes down to the sea floor and lays itself on the right side. The physique of the fish mutated!

                                    South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens)