#diatoms

[samimarkart]

drew microscopic life again. the earth is healing

[wild-e-eep]

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

No: it's mostly weirdly hinged rectangles.

There are a few normal looking cylindrical algal filaments in there as well.

[princeofthegrasslands]

May i present to you

Diatoms

And an intruder there in the corner

[xanaxfarts]

Fossil diatoms retain their intricately patterned glassy silica shell cases. Called frustules, these may be either rounded or elongated. Living diatoms are single-celled, algae-like protists. They make up much of the plankton in the marine and freshwater food chains. Their shells accumulate by the millions on the seafloor, eventually fossilizing to form a siliceous sedimentary rock called diatomite.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Fossilized silicon skeletons of single celled organisms from Tulane studies in geology and paleontology v.20 (1987). Full text here.

[nemfrog]

Diatoms. Der Große Brockhaus. vol. 1. 1928.

Synedra — 2. Chaetoceras — 3. Diatoma vulgare — 4. Gomphonema — 5. Asterionella — 6. Meridion — 7. Cymbella — 8. Navicula bipartita

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[mugene-art]

MugeneArtShop - Etsy

Shop biology goodies for nerds by MugeneArtShop located in Boston, Massachusetts. Top shop for gifts. Buyers bought gifts from this shop and

gifts for microbio and paleo enthusiasts! :DD

[aquaticinverts]

diatoms from my header. various species