* Cape Turtle Dove-Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

**† Colossochelys atlas, Atlas Tortoise ( Extinct )

With others, he later brought to light a sub-tropical fossil fauna of unexampled extent and richness, including remains of Mastodon, the colossal ruminant Sivatherium, and the enormous extinct tortoise Colossochelys Atlas.

* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species

* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species

WMO publishes the International Cloud Atlas, the international standard cloud atlas since 1896.

With his son, cartographer Jorge Reinel and Lopo Homem, they participated in the making of the atlas known as " Lopo Homem-Reinés Atlas " or " Miller Atlas ", in 1519.

A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe ; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

The origin of the term atlas is a common source of misconception, perhaps because two different mythical figures named ' Atlas ' are associated with map making.

It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name " atlas ", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.

: For other uses of " atlas ", see Atlas ( disambiguation ).

* Atlas moth Attacus atlas – The largest moth in the world

* Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, an atlas of ancient geography

By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name " Atlas Major ", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers.

* Atlas of the Human Journey National Geographic presents an atlas of the human journey.

With his son, cartographer Jorge Reinel and Lopo Homem, they participated in the making of the atlas known as " Lopo Homem-Reinés Atlas " or " Miller Atlas ", in 1519.

However, the final release of the atlas was not the end of the project ; the Atlas is still being improved upon.

Also, other projects including the human brain atlas, developing mouse brain, developing human brain, mouse connectivity, non-human primate atlas, and the mouse spinal cord atlas are being developed through the Allen Institute for Brain Science in conjunction with the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas.

The mouse brain atlas was the original project of the Allen Brain Atlas and was finished in 2006.

The Allen Developing Mouse Brain Atlas is an atlas which tracks gene expression throughout the development of a C57BL / 6 mouse brain.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon

* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster

* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine

* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear

* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher

* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Nonetheless, as the known distribution of the Atlas bear is a relict of the desertification of the Sahara, its ancestor may have been widespread in northern and eastern Africa in prehistoric times.