copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:30×40 cm Their hanging

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copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:30×40 cm Their hangingThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100