Cool Pictures We Blatantly Stole from National Geographic

These were too cool not to share here. We are like the Robin Hood of scientific imagery... sort of

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Larval crab

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Copepod

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Diatoms

To make matters worse... we can't find the original article these came from... it's over at National Geographic in some article about plankton or something...

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ooooooohhhh.....pretty. Love the copepod.

Well then I must be one of the Merry Men! Or the drunk Friar...

They are from the November 2007 Issue of National Geographic (pgs. 96-111) titled "Small Wonders: the secret life of marine microfauna". A wonderful article worth reading!