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offline 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!


 

offline 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.


 

offline 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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offline 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 :(


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-04-28 12:21 [#01164752]
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microoganisms rock the party!


 

offline 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.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2004-04-28 14:13 [#01165017]
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fucking hate animals



 

offline DoctorMO from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-04-28 14:20 [#01165041]
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gota love diptera.


 

offline 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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