Siphonophorae - Jellyfish perfume Original from flickr

Original from flickr

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Siphonophorae - Jellyfish perfume Original from flickrAmong 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