Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts.
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Posts tagged "biology"
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Camponotus Herculaneus (via Eyewitness: The eyes have it)
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Moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita
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Mosaic Jellyfish (by melissa.fiene)
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The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH’s Human Microbiome Project.
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Electron micrograph of a Rove Beetle, (By Sue Lindsay; via Australian Museum)
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Jellyfish parasite Hyperia galba
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Bioluminescence probably produced by Lingulodinium polyedrum, a species of the genus Dinoflagellate, in the waters around Toco, 2004. These unicellular organisms rise to the surface at night to breed (blooming). They glow when they are disturbed, in this case because of the wave action on the rocks.
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Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium — and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Incredible, highly recommended!
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Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium — and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Incredible, highly recommended!
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Those are some of the things that molecules do… given four billions years of evolution.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Ep. 2
This is from the second episode of Cosmos by Carl Sagan, in which the basics of artificial selection, natural selection, evolution, and biology is explained.
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