plate lxxix polypus levis hoyle fine art print carl chun Size:30×40 cm Title: Abbazia Sport Woche

Title: Abbazia Sport Woche

particularly evidenced in the stylised sea

both humorous and grim

Date: 1919-1920

the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one — relatives of the Portuguese man o' war

plate lxxix polypus levis hoyle fine art print carl chun Size:30×40 cm Title: Abbazia Sport WochePlate LXXIX Polypus Levis Hoyle from "The Cephalopoda"(1898 99) by Carl Chun Little was known about cephalopoda in the 1900s. So Carl Chun, a well known German marine biologist with a specialty in cephalopods and plankton, led the German expedition aboard the steamboat Valdivia in 1898 to explore the deep sea. He was among a growing fraction of scientist who believed that there was life in the deep sea. Original from Biodiversity Heritage Library