YouTube description: Spend a little time with the other amazing photos from this year at https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/ This was really an honor to be a part of. We started with thousands of images... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 107 views • 3:59

YouTube description: We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 11 months ago • 11 views • 7:58

YouTube description: On the surface, Ophyroglena seems like it should be pretty easy to identify, but it all depends on which stage of life it's currently in.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months ago • 118 views • 8:38

Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32

YouTube description: There’s something you probably heard a lot in biology class. And no, it's not “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”...

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 57 views

YouTube description: Tropical storms can be devastating but at least we usually know where they're going to appear. The exception being a very strange week in 1996, on Lake Huron.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 185 views • 3:42

YouTube description: For more from the Georgia Aquarium go to: https://www.georgiaaquarium.org

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 68 views • 8:55

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) 5 years 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) 5 years 1 month 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) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 510 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) 5 years 1 month 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) 5 years 1 month 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) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 296 views • 8:25

YouTube description: Citheronia regalis is a giant silk moth...though these don't actually produce silk, which is why it's better to go by their family name saturniidae. Citheronia regalis actually... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,000 views • 3:59

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) 5 years 2 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) 5 years 3 months 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) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 834 views • 7:44