Awww, look at its feet! This is a scanning EM image of a tardigrade (water bear) from the Goldstein lab at UNC on Flickr. (Found in the Flickr pool)
And here is another one, with colour codes:
From that photo’s description: “A tardigrade (water bear). False-colored adult (blue: digestive tract with food inside appearing black, orange: gonad with three growing oocytes marked with asterisks). Refractile cells filling the body cavity are coelomocytes.”
This post was pre-blogged, because I’m currently traveling. When this posts next week, I will have arrived in Australia yesterday, but actually it’s already today (next week) there. Anyway, to celebrate my trip to Australia, here is an Etsy science item from Australia: brain in a jar, by yourorgangrinder
I suddenly have a million things to do, but managed to briefly distract myself with this image by AnimalDetector that I found in the Flickr pool:
It’s a kymograph of a robin going on and off her nest. Time passes from left to right, and when you see the background of the eggs that means the robin is not there. The stripy brown is the robin on her nest. There is a video that goes with it that might make it more clear:
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