 Soon after, it was published in Life in 1952, which gained it much attention.However, this wasn't the only assignment Zallinger received from Life.He paintings portrayed reptiles and dinosaurs, he painted 8 pages of the tropical rain forests of Dutch Guiana, drew animals and birds with his wife Jean Day Zallinger, recreated scenes of Minoans in ancient Crete, contributed to illustrations in the series "The World We Live In", "Wonders of Life on Earth", 2 of the 12 chapters in "The Epic of Man", illustrated a series on the Russian Revolution, and many others.