It was silkworms that first captured 13–year–old Maria Sibylla Merian’s attention. She would later graduate to a wider set of creatures, watching caterpillars, pupae, butterflies, and moths for days, ...

A Google doodle is today marking the 366th anniversary of the birth of Maria Sibylla Merian, German naturalist and scientific illustrator. A Google doodle celebrating the work of Maria Sibylla Merian ...

A special exhibition opened at a Tokyo museum during February that bridges the passing of three centuries between illustration and reality. Amateur butterfly enthusiast Shiraishi Yuji has been able to ...

German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian has been honoured with a Google doodle today. On what would have been her 366th birthday, the search engine logo has been transformed ...

During the 17th century, when it was generally believed that insects spontaneously generated from dirt, old wool, and rotten meat, Maria Sibylla Merian found them fascinating. Her work as a naturalist ...

More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, Maria Sibylla Merian was a professional artist and naturalist whose close observations and illustrations were ...

Google's latest doodle celebrates the anniversary of the birth of of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), a German who was one of the greatest artist-naturalists of her time and who is regarded as having ...

The naturalist is known to the world for her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly. Merien was born in 1647 in Frankfurt and began painting specimens at an early ...