Beyond the Human Eye

This is the second in the series of images of some of the organisms found in just a few drops of water collected from a pond in a disused q...

A few days ago, when we were out walking in Weardale, I collected a small sample of water from a pond in a disused q...

This cross section of the stem of a soybean seedling shows the early stages in a developmental process that will produce a stem capable of s...

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

A couple of weeks ago I posted some pictures of garden snail eggs that had been found by Chantelle Kerr, one of our research students, that...

There aren’t many insect species that live in the intertidal zone. The two you’re most likely to encounter are the springtail called Anurida...

Some of our project students have been working on the feeding habits of garden snails Helix aspersa and one of our postgrads, Chantelle Ker...

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

Well, teeming thousands anyway. These little organisms are  Paramecium , single-cells protists that swim with incredible speed using ciliar...

This is probably the low point of the year for exploring life in seaside rock pools but if you search amongst the fronds of seaweeds like th...