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Ernst Haeckel – philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist. The pinnacle of his work – Art Forms of Nature – began publication in 1899 and is still an astonishing record of life on earth. When art and science combine, something sublime can come to pass.

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The Namib Desert is home to some of the world’s rarest and most interesting flora and fauna. A plant that resembles an alien life form and thought to be a relic of the Jurassic period can only be found here.