Hyperallergic reports.
Here's the BHL website. Here's their Flickr page. A selected image:
February 20, 2020
"[T]he Biodiversity Heritage Library... is now offering more than 150,000 high-resolution illustrations for copyright-free download."
"These public domain images belong to an archive of more than 55 million pages of literature about earth’s species of flora and fauna. They include animal sketches, historical diagrams, botanical studies, and scientific research collected from hundreds of thousands of journals and libraries across the world. Some of the illustrations date back to the 15th century."
Hyperallergic reports.
Here's the BHL website. Here's their Flickr page. A selected image:
Hyperallergic reports.
Here's the BHL website. Here's their Flickr page. A selected image:
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Who glued a fedora on top of the head of that mushroom?
Very cool. Love that stuff.
He was a real fun guy.
Scientific names "dicty" and "phallo"?
Sometimes a mushroom is just a mushroom.
This is not one of those times.
You don't need a little blue pill Ann. You need a new boyfriend....
was this just intriguing spam?
Thanks, forwarded it to my two favorite girls.
"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful..."
Noted Darwin.
I am constantly gobsmacked by the strange whimsy and unpredictable beauty of living things. Hummingbirds. Fireflies. Octopi. Slime molds. Tartigrades. Moss. Dragonflies. Horses. Radiolarians. And the fact that some humans find them strange and fascinating, though often strikingly alien in appearance and how they live their lives.
It's an interesting planet.
Even the dictyphorae are donning dresses!
I am constantly gobsmacked by the strange whimsy and unpredictable beauty of living things.
Nudibranchs!
"selected image" = dictyphora as Sherlock Holmes*
*John
robother: And with a party hat, too!
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