Images of science – Tardigrade

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.”