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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-04-28 12:03 [#01164698]
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01) The Flattid Bug -- "Leakey [anthropologist L B S Leakey] touched the twig, and the flower dissolved into a swarm of tiny instects. A few minutes later the insects re-settled on the twig, crawled over one another's backs, and once again became a coral-coloured blossom, a flower which does not exist in nature. Some of the insects were green; some were half green and half pink; others were deep coral; they arranged themselves so as to look like a flower with a green tip." Trippy!
02) Microstomum, a Flatworm -- "It eats the polyp Hydra for the sake of its stinging capsules (called nematocysts). When the Hydra has been digested, the stinging bombs are picked up in the lining of the flatworm's stomach, passed through to another set of cells, which now carry them--like builders' labourers carrying bricks--to the flatworm's skin, where they are mounted like guns, ready to fire their stinging thread. It is a curious feature that the stinging capsules do not explode when the flatworm eats the Hydra. What is even stranger is that the flatworm does not eat the Hydra for food, but only to steal it's 'bombs'. Once the flatworm has enough bombs mounted in its skin, it will not touch a Hydra, even if starving." Trippy!
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pachi
from yo momma (United States) on 2004-04-28 12:06 [#01164704]
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Trippy indeed!
I would love to see the two species in action.
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jand
from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-28 12:10 [#01164713]
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THE INSTITUTE FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE LESS THAN ONE MILLIMETRE PRESENTS...
Microscopic water organisms in 3D! ...
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-04-28 12:19 [#01164743]
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That site looks awesome - unfortunately, I didn't purchase Spy Kids 3D, so I don't have a pair of 3D-glasses :(
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epohs
from )C: on 2004-04-28 12:21 [#01164752]
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microoganisms rock the party!
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Q4Z2X
on 2004-04-28 12:55 [#01164848]
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somebody post something about those 20+ ft. earthworms that thrive in the rainforest.
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Dannn_
from United Kingdom on 2004-04-28 14:13 [#01165017]
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fucking hate animals
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DoctorMO
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-28 14:20 [#01165041]
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gota love diptera.
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Ceri JC
from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-04-28 15:04 [#01165142]
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Even without glasses you'll love this. Cheers for the link Jand, this is great stuff!
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