YouTube description: These world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 174 views • 11:54

YouTube description: Yes, they might eat your brain, but there's a lot more to amoebas than that!

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months ago • 67 views • 10:26

YouTube description: Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 508 views • 10:13

YouTube description: We also don't really know what rotifers are... but we'll try to tell you as much as we know!

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 793 views • 9:19

YouTube description: Slimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life...a challenge... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 125 views • 10:04

YouTube description: The hydra of mythology may not be as far off from reality as you think! Let's take a journey to the mall to meet our tentacled, regenerating friends!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 296 views • 8:25

YouTube description: Death is inevitable and mysterious, even in the microcosmos. Stentors, heliozoans, and yes, even tardigrades, experience death in many different ways.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 347 views • 7:21

YouTube description: Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 166 views • 11:31

YouTube description: We owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 834 views • 7:44

YouTube description: We know these cute little water bears can survive the vacuum of space but are they actually immortal? We'll explore that and other misconceptions about tardigrades in this week's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 356 views • 12:50

YouTube description: 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months ago • 335 views • 10:00

https://youtu.be/PZoaKzEXzi8 It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 9:49