#microbe

Pencil studies of an Amphileptus ciliate, who I watched ambush and swallow up a little Synchaeta rotifer into its cell and felt humbly reminded that multicellular animals are not necessarily above single-celled organisms in the food chain.

me if you even care

A tiny ocean microbe called Prochlorococcus produces up to 20% of the oxygen in Earth’s biosphere. It is so small you cannot see it, but it is so abundant in sunlit ocean water that, in a rough way, about one out of every five breaths links back to something almost invisible.

pureshadow microbes :p

Creator: Alex Mertens

Chaos sp. amoeba from Burholme creek!