The Artful Amoeba
The Startling Mechanical Beauty of a Rotifer in Motion
January 25th, 2013 |
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This curious creature, captured here under the microscope, is not a protist. It’s an animal. An animal, in fact, that can be smaller than some unicellular microbes. It’s a rotifer, and its stock in trade is sucking tiny prey to their doom. These multi-cellular micro-animals — which, let me emphasize again, are smaller than some [...]
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