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It’s World Ocean Day!
Oceans are teeming with biodiversity, like these ascidians (Class Ascidiacea) which are filter feeders.
SciArt by Ernst Haeckel for his Kunstformen der Natur (1904). View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary) with thanks to the University Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for digitizing.
The Human Head
Ever wonder what your head would look like if it were cut in half?
Well, probably not like this. These are “average” heads. But we’ve all got some fun structures inside of us that are rarely considered by most people. Check out those beautiful conchae!
Atlas of Applied (Topographical) Human Anatomy. Dr. Karl von Bardeleben, Dr. Heinrich Haekel. Translated by J. Howell Evans, 1906.
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