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Microscopia

On a rainy afternoon visit the Micropolitan Museum to find revealed the most amazing things:

Waterfleas and ghost shrimps

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Algae

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Forams - small marine creatures that build houses from chalk

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Radiolaria - protozoa that create miniscule skeletons of glass

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Very art deco diatoms

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and ectoprots, which look as good as they sound:

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Posted by on February 23, 2008 12:01 PM |

Comments

Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter
Heh.
Wonderful, thanks.

Posted by: peacay | February 23, 2008 2:42 PM

Oh! I like visiting your world!

Posted by: Melissa | February 23, 2008 9:38 PM

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