Jellyfish are well known for their ability to multiply en masse and influence coastal ecosystems. But what is less known is ...

Chasing Haeckel. A documentary centered on Ernst Haeckel's drawings of radiolarians sets the unity of art and science in motion. Hannah Waters. Hannah Waters. This person does not yet have a bio. View ...

Yet Ernst Haeckel, now past 70, was the first of the Germans to lay hold of the princi- ples of Darwin and develop them into a reasoned and systematic natural philos- ophy.

EMBRYONIC EVOLUTION: This comparative illustration of eight species’ embryos from Haeckel’s Anthropogenie (1874 edition) is among the most well-known of the German scientist’s images. The rows ...

A fter completing his studies in medicine and biology, a restless Ernst Haeckel set off for Italy in 1859 to study art and marine biology. The diversity of life fascinated the 26-year-old Prussian, ...