Wonders of the Micro World

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?

ENHANCE

This handsome fellow is Marshmallow, whom I met yesterday at the SeaLife aquarium in Sydney. Australian lungfish are wild—they can survive out of the water for several days, live for over a century, and fossil records show that they have remained virtually unchanged for 100 million years!

Although submitted for the enjoyment of the leucism channel, Marshmallow actually started out as a regular-degular grey-coloured lungfish like all his lungfish friends. But when he was about 5 years old, he started to lighten in colour, first to yellow and then eventually to the pinkish-white you see today. He has been checked over and is totally healthy, just pale.

His favourite food is bloodworms, and his favourite activity seems to be sitting at the bottom of the tank so he can stare back at all the humans that come to look at him.

I miss doing palynology - okay so this is a fossil sample but you'd be looking at stuff like this in the modern day too.

Some predatory mosquito larvae are capable of shooting out their gross little heads like harpoons to grab prey.

"What the fuck?"

no, "Watch the Phacus".

Pyrocystis fusiformis

Pyrocystis fusiformis is a bioluminescent dinoflagellate that glows blue in agitated water. It is often grown in homes and labs for science projects due to its easily cultivation.

ferrofluid on a microscope slide (source)