These Sea Creatures Are Actually Made of Glass

This sculpture, by 19th-century German glassworkers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, depicts the chrysaora hyoscella or compass jellyfish. The Blaschkas, a father-and-son team, created anatomically correct glass models such as this porpita mediterranea, or blue button. The ophiothrix serrata, or brittle star, is one of thousands of marine invertebrates modeled by the Blaschka using sophisticated glassworking …

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