elongated flexible unsegmented extensions..

 

self-professed tentacle obsession

graceful fluidity

a glow in the dark waters

Earnest Haeckel Plate 

The amazing man himself (seated)..

Ernst Haeckel and Nicholai Miclucho-Maklai 1866

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies - preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the present - converted tens of thousands of readers all over the world.