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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World
The ocean is so big that it can be easy to forget the microscopic beauty of the...
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 10:34
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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea
Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...
Tue, 08/19/2014 - 10:47
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Under Arctic Ice
Hidden beneath Arctic ice is a world few have ever seen. Take the icy plunge with a...
Tue, 01/04/2011 - 14:48
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk
Believe it or not, this unraveling thread is from hagfish slime. Hagfish are...
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Zooplankton in the Eye of a Needle
Zooplankton are small—but do you know just how small? This drop of water smaller...
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Lacy Crust Bryozoan
This colony of a lacy crust bryozoan (Membranipora membranacea) started off as just...
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Branching Red Algae
Under the microscope, you can peer inside the cells of this filamentous red algae....
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Glassy Radiolarian Beauty
The shells of radiolarians rank among some of the treasures of the ocean, with...
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up
This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...
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Psychedelic Tardigrade
Tardigrades, which are usually less than 1 mm long, can be found in almost every...
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A Diatom Helix
This beautiful marine diatom Chaetoceros debilis was caught in the North Sea. Not...
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