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Born in 1882 in Leipzig, Germany, Else von Roeder spent her childhood in Germany and Austria. After training in art at the Unive ...

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But Beebe knew that examining creatures brought up in nets was a poor substitute for first-hand observation of live animals in t ...

a flaming-red light near the tip of its tail, devouring a giant lanternfish. The stark black background Else painted added an ee ...

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