I've got seed shrimp! You can also see detritus worms in this video.

I have in past years seen standing water in the woods at a local national rec area and on at least one occasion I have seen daphnia there. A couple or three weeks ago, I stopped by to collect leaf litter from that spot for my aquarium. It was dry at the time, but it was clearly a seasonal beaver situation.

I had hoped to pick up some invertebrate eggs, and it looks like it has paid off.

#worms #seedshrimp #ostracod #leaf #invertebrates #aquarium

Word Search Puzzle 171

Word List : #previous #hosea #ostracod #sapa #buddler #loren #frescade #alaund #detroit #tillable #violine #pompeian #difforme #hamulus #acoelous #tensing #kane #lean

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-171/

Watch #SeaFireflies Make Underwater Fireworks as They Seek Mates https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/science/sea-fireflies-glowing.html  

Collective synchrony of mating signals modulated by ecological cues and social signals in #bioluminescent sea fireflies https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2311

"The creatures behind the eerie light show are called #ostracods... Under a #microscope, you can make out an #ostracod’s shrimplike body encased in a see-through shell. A bizarre organ called the upper lip makes many ostracods bioluminescent"

Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end-Permian ostracods from Aras Valley (NW Iran)

Body size changes of ostracods in the Aras Valley section are evaluated in response to the drastic warming during the end-Permian mass extinction at three taxonomic levels: class, order, species. Individual species to instars do not show dwarfing similar to some experimental studies.

https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12667

#paleobiology #paleontology #climatechange #ostracod #Permian #Triassic

Nostolepis sp. in Pridoli sea with some scolecodonts, crinoids and ostracods.

Drawn while doing my Master's research. I find all of these in samples I have.

#paleoart #art #photoshop #scolecodont #ostracod #acanthod #crinoids #sea #pridoli #silurian

check out the rhymes i spit...

#fish #spitting #ostracod #flash #animatedgif

check out the rhymes i spit...

#fish #spitting #ostracod #flash #animatedgif