Siphonophorae - Jellyfish Size:50×70 cm Little was known about cephalopoda

Little was known about cephalopoda in the 1900s

graphic artist

tentacles streaming behind them in graceful

he also took drawing courses at a trade school

but it is just as at home in a botanical-themed bathroom

Siphonophorae - Jellyfish Size:50×70 cm Little was known about cephalopodaAmong the strangest creatures Haeckel ever drew, the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one relatives of the Portuguese man o' war. In this spectacular plate, their chains of bells, floats and trailing filaments stretch and branch across the sheet in delicate pinks, blues and violets, a composition that is as biologically astonishing as it is beautiful. The illustration belongs to