Shrinking World!

Shrinking World!

If you remember I told you about looking for tardigrades on lichens. Well, I continued to look. And then it was just getting a technique that worked. For me the trick was too soak the lichen for 24 plus hours. Then squeeze a small piece of lichen to get a drop of water onto the…

Slow-stepper

Slow-stepper

Doesn’t the title sound like it describes most nature nerds? I sure think so. LOL. Protozoa! This group includes a lot of tiny creatures. The sizes range from one micron to giant ones (20 cm) that can be found in the ocean. Protozoa, even bigger! At first I thought this was going be a tardigrade,…