From their website:
“The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).”
BHL publishes a blog and one of the regular features is “Book of the Week”, which exhibits books from their collection. Last week’s book, Field Book of Giant Fishes, features this amazing photo of a Giant Oar-Fish that was caught off the coast of California in 1996:
Be sure to check out this great resource!
