Engraving of a lemming. At the top the animal is identified as a 'Mus Norvagicus, vulgo Leming' (Norwegian mouse, commonly lemming), with the skeleton

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Engraving of a lemming. At the top the animal is identified as a 'Mus Norvagicus, vulgo Leming' (Norwegian mouse, commonly lemming), with the skeleton shown below. The modern Norway lemming is Lemmus lemmus, a common species found in northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia. This engraving comes from Old Worm's Museum Wormianum, published at Amsterdam in 1655.

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Photo credit: © MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 1600s, 17th, century, engraving, historical, horizontal, lemming, lemmus, monochrome, mus, museum, norvagicus, norway, norwegian, rodent, skeleton, worm, wormianum, zoology