#microfauna

[pbjpawprints]

Professor Speck the water bear would love to teach you about microbiology! 🔬 🦠

[cryptid-stimming]

1950s Scientists, Microscopes, Laboratory

[pincushionsoup]

my Copepod oc, her superiors Hydra and Water Flea Daphina, and her best friend Planaria

[is-it-cute]

have tardigrades been submitted yet

6. Are tardigrades cute?

Cute

Not Cute

Unsure

Voting ended onMar 7

Thanks for the submission!

[kosaciec]

Brine shrimp so cutes 🦠

[politoke]

@onenicebugperday

This little lad visited me today. The tiniest beetle I have ever seen. We became friends immediately.

[noosphe-re]

Leg muscles of the tardigrade H. exemplaris. Colour-coding according to hypothesized serial homologues. Three-dimensional reconstruction based on CLSM data of F-actin labelling. Lateral view; anterior is left, dorsal is up. Scale bar, 20 µm. (Gross, Vladimir & Mayer, Georg. (2019). Cellular morphology of leg musculature in the water bear Hypsibius exemplaris (Tardigrada) unravels serial homologies. Royal Society Open Science. 6. 191159. 10.1098/rsos.191159.)

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Atlantis Phase III is here. Over the next few weekends we will put together the ecosystems of this island during the late Pleistocene, based on community submissions.

The open woodlands have some charismatic megafauna to offer, from truncotheres with bad haircuts over antler wearing birds to large mustelids and turtles.

This image also demonstrates very well the beauty of Atlantis in this form: perfectly balanced between majesty and silliness ;)