Leopold died in 1895, and his son Rudolf in 1939, but their names endure in the glass-art world ... of high-resolution images of underwater sea creatures, but the Blaschkas’ skill in creating ...

The organisms that merged are comb jellies, translucent invertebrates that resemble jellyfish but belong to a different group of marine animals called ctenophores. They grow to about 4 inches long ...

They shipped these stunningly lifelike models to universities and museums around the world for use as teaching aids—real-life squids and sea anemones ... "Modern glass blowers have tried to ...

Some of those native European creatures, modeled in glass long before terms ... A page from his renowned book “Art Forms in Nature” (published in 1904) shows sea anemones.