Biologist Ernst Haeckel popularized the theory that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—the notion that embryonic development mirrors a species' evolutionary history—in the 19th century.

EMBRYONIC EVOLUTION: This comparative illustration of eight species’ embryos from Haeckel’s Anthropogenie (1874 edition) is among the most well-known of the German scientist’s images. The rows ...

Ernst Haeckel couldn’t make up his mind which of his great loves to follow: science or art. ... Altars were aquaria filled with delicate corals and colourful fish. ...

The research is published in the journal Nature (Dec. 9, 2010).. Whether fish or flies -- at a certain stage in their development, the embryos of different animal species within a phylum are ...

A new book celebrating the science illustrations of Ernst Haeckel has launched on Kickstarter. The book features numerous drawings of microorganisms by the German zoologist and naturalist who ...

Haeckel and others said that different animals pass through, or 'recapitulate', similar embryonic stages 2. Indeed, fish and human embryos do look similar because they share primitive features ...

If you happen to catch a baguwall fish, ... including such classics as Albrecht Dürer's 16th century engraving of a rhinoceros and Ernst Haeckel's 19th century illustrations of trilobites and ...

As we discover in Haeckel’s Embryos, German biologist Ernst Haeckel included illustrations of the embryological stages of vertebrates in a series of books published between 1868 and 1908.Fudging ...

The mosaic leatherjacket can reach 60 cm when fully grown, but as a tiny youngster they need a little help to get by, and that comes in the shape of the Haeckel’s jellyfish, which provides shelter for ...

Biologist Ernst Haeckel popularized the theory that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"—the notion that embryonic development mirrors a species' evolutionary history—in the 19th century.