From the early cave paintings in Lascaux in the Southwest of France, painted with hands and hollow bone, to the ethically questionable practice of plastination, humankind has tried to preserve the ...

“A Cabinet of Wonders: A Celebration of Art in Nature” pairs the author's scientific treasures with art loaned by international museums, cultural institutions and private collectors.

Toward the end of his best-selling book “Die Welträthsel” (“The Riddle of the Universe,” 1899), the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) offered an easy solution to one of the minor riddles ...

You’ve probably seen Ernst Haeckel’s amazing naturalist drawings of squid and other creatures of the sea. But did you know he started his career as a greeting card designer? Historical detective John ...

After 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, and ...

On the coast of Sicily, a man sits hunched over a microscope peering at what look to be grains of sand. It's the late 1870s, and these specimens are mineral-shelled protozoans called radiolarians ...

How can we depict diversity? Biologists of the 19th century faced this question as they became aware not only of the huge variety of plant and animal species, but also of the connections between these ...

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