Beyond the Human Eye

An insight into a microscopic world, invisible to the unaided human eye

Showing posts with label Testate rhizopods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Testate rhizopods. Show all posts
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Swallowed by the Sun Animacule

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I've long been fascinated by heliozoans aka 'sun animacules' and have posted on them before , but thought I would again because...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Microscopic Living Do-nut

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Here's another interesting organism that lives in the temporary pools of water, known as phytotelmata , that accumulate in cavities in t...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

A Living Jewel

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This exquisite object, nature's equivalent of a Fabergé egg but only about one tenth of a millimetre long, is a testate rhizopod - a sp...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Testate Rhizopods

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Amoeba come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. The bog-standard, free-range amoeba glides wherever its pseudopodia take it, going with t...
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