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One of the bigger projects from last quarter--a sex changing snail with a great name

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Liverwort!

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Pea crabs live as parasites tucked inside the shells of bivalves, like mussels. This keeps them protected from predators, and they mooch off of the food the mussel brings in while filter-feeding. To find a mate, the male crab must leave the safety of home and find another mussel occupied by a female--an epic little love story :)

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I'm trying so hard to understand this crazy little frog-faced rainbow slime boy

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A portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th century German painter and pioneer of entomology. Best known for her carefully studied illustrations of insect life cycles, and for her self-funded scientific expedition to Surinam in 1699. She also joined a Christian doomsday cult in order to dump her husband (it was hard to get a divorce back then)

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Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi) 

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Yum yum yum

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I'm deep in the Cretaceous this weekend

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If only we could all have built-in hairbrush teeth

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Some little Alokistocarids! From my school's tiny fossil collection.

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This was one of my final projects from last quarter, a story about Nematomorphs.

The phylum Nematomorpha (also called horsehair worms or Gordian worms) are small freshwater worms found all over the world. They live as parasites growing inside of larger arthropods such as grasshoppers, crickets, and mantises. When the worm reaches adulthood, it is able to alter the behavior of its host, compelling it to jump into water. There, the horsehair worm emerges from its host and lives the rest of its life as a free-swimming adult. Remarkably, the insect hosts are capable of surviving this process—if they don’t drown or get eaten by a hungry fish.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

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Fun little studies using Coolors.co

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Don't look at her butt!