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Images of science – Tardigrade (water bear)

by Eva Amsen

Awww, look at its feet! This is a scanning EM image of a tardigrade (water bear) from the Goldstein lab at UNC on Flickr. (Found with all the other interesting images of science in the Flickr pool)

tardigrade water bear

And here is another one, with colour codes:

Hypsibius dujardini

From that photo’s description: “A tardigrade (water bear). False-colored adult (blue: digestive tract with food inside appearing black, orange: gonad with three growing oocytes marked with asterisks). Refractile cells filling the body cavity are coelomocytes.”

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