Pebrero 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:

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12 komento:

Bill, Republic of Texas ayon kay ...

Who glued a fedora on top of the head of that mushroom?

Temujin ayon kay ...

Very cool. Love that stuff.

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

He was a real fun guy.

mikeski ayon kay ...

Scientific names "dicty" and "phallo"?

Sometimes a mushroom is just a mushroom.

This is not one of those times.

Le Stain du Poop ayon kay ...

You don't need a little blue pill Ann. You need a new boyfriend....

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM ayon kay ...

was this just intriguing spam?

Howard ayon kay ...

Thanks, forwarded it to my two favorite girls.

Maillard Reactionary ayon kay ...

"...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.

robother ayon kay ...

Even the dictyphorae are donning dresses!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM ayon kay ...

I am constantly gobsmacked by the strange whimsy and unpredictable beauty of living things.

Nudibranchs!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM ayon kay ...

"selected image" = dictyphora as Sherlock Holmes*

*John

Maillard Reactionary ayon kay ...

robother: And with a party hat, too!

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