of the most enigmatic microscopic life forms is the amoeba. Almost everyone knows what amoeba are, which is quite remarkable since they are not that common. Microorganisms like rotifers are much easier to find but drop the name 'rotifer'...
The Daddy-Long-Legs Spider, Pholcus phalangioides in 3D
name 'protozoa' is used for the more animal-like single celled organisms like amoebas and ciliates. The term 'algae' is used for the more plant-like microorganisms. But the distinction is often vague. Dinobryon (top image) has chloroplasts...
animals. Because they are so small most people have never heard of their existence. They are about the same size as the larger unicellular organisms. They don't have a lot of cells, less than 1000, but they have some very special...
Image gallery - leaf of the water milfoil, Myriophyllum, showing cellstructure
A macroscopic and microscopic tour.
Life is every bit as tough on the microscopic scale as on the plains of Africa. There are the hunters, the hunted and the scavengers all playing their role in the microscopic world of a freshwater pond. The following real life story is a summary of an extraordinary piece of video footage captured...
I was walking near a pool which was not far from my house on a fine afternoon, I suddenly discovered some brown lines on the back of holly fern leaves. I observed them carefully and I was so interested at the structure of the leaves that I...
Double-legged cylinders - millipedes