#protozoa

Paramecium bursaria

It was the time to design an Amoeba~

The Journal of microscopy and natural science. 1890.

"The organism named Acineta mystacina, by Ehrenberg, was said by Mr. Gosse to be merely one of the developmental stages of a larger Vorticellid."

the slime mold collection

IDs are to my best knowledge:

Also on my depop:

Original protozoa figure sets in slime, currently 7 different microbes per set including two different amoeba, two different paramecia, a euglena, a dinoflagellate and a swan's tear.

Hand sculpted in clay, then cast in soft flexible glow resin with colored beads and sometimes "red dyed" nuclei.

Volvox. This structure is made up of many small protozoa forming a spherical colony. It's good to be spherical for structural reasons when it comes to the ocean. They live simple lives, photosynthesizing and sticking together with their flagella. When it's time for reproduction, a few will move to the centre to form daughter colonies (the small balls seen inside the structure). As these daughter colonies grow larger, they will eventually be spat out to become a separate colony. These creatures are incredibly important, as they shows a possible stepping stone into the metozoan body plan (i.e. the body plan of every other animal). It's not only an example of colonial living among unicellular organisms but perhaps an early precursor to cell differentiation, with some cells focusing on asexual reproduction while others remain in place.