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Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

A grand, neoclassical building with arched doorways and balconies stands under a cloudy sky, illuminated by warm lights at dusk.

A marine research institute founded in Naples in 1872 by the German zoologist Anton Dohrn, the first of its kind in the world. It pioneered the model of researchers from many countries renting bench space on the Bay of Naples to study Mediterranean fauna. Much of the early twentieth-century work on embryology, regeneration, and invertebrate development came out of its tanks, including the 1996 paper that announced the immortal jellyfish.

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