Beyond the Human Eye

Looking like a writhing python – but less than a millimetre long – this nematode worm came from water that I squeezed out of a patch of wet...

Here's a short video of Eubranchus , the nudibranch featured in the Seaweed Microcosm post, below. Note the tiny swimming crustacean tha...

If you want to explore exotic marine life in shallow seas you could jet off to a warm climate and scuba dive over a coral reef.......or you ...

As the nights draw in and the lights go on earlier each evening, increasing numbers of insects are drawn to the light at windows. The local ...

Mussels Mytilis edulis spend their infancy in the plankton, as swimming veliger larvae (see http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02me...

Prey's-eye view of a sea gooseberry. Unlike sea anemones and jellyfish, which have stinging tentacles, those of sea gooseberries are sti...

Eight rows of beating hairs, arranged like rows of combs, propel comb jellies in the surface plankton The microscopic beating hairs create g...

Groundsel cluster cup fungus, looking like minute tarts, on an infected groundsel leaf surface. The spores are produced in vast num...

Above and top: spheres of citrus oil trapped amongst the cells in orange peel x100 Vertical section through an oil gland in orange peel. In...

Pear stone cells, x400, polarised light Pear stone cells, x400, interference contrast optics, showing the plasmodesmatal channels that conn...