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Microscopic Bacterium
Wondering what this is?
At the final stop in this GIF, which is magnified many times, a tiny bacterium, is resting on a diatom, (a class of algae that are known for their silica shells), which is sitting on an amphipod, a type of shell-less crustacean.
A Reddit user “adamwong246″ described it best:
There’s a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod on a frog on a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea!
The GIF was made by James Tyrwhitt-Drake using a scanning electronic microscope at the University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility.
Here it is (it may take some time to fully load):
