View through the eyepiece of a dissecting microscope showing a group of 25 N. stella foraminifera. Foraminifer are extremely abundant on Earth. Most are only about 300 microns in diameter.

A light microscope image of a planktonic foraminifera (bottom right) surrounded by thin strands of its cytoplasm that extend into the surrounding environment. This living specimen had recently ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

A collection of images taken with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) has been pieced together by London-based science author, Brandon Broll, into a book titled Microcosmos.

Foraminifera are normally only a few ... The team of scientists used modern techniques including a scanning electron microscope, X-ray images and micro-CT-scans to examine several specimens of ...

Individual specimen entries, including images, ... It also contains approximately 10,000 scanning electron microscope micrographs. Heron-Allen slide collection. The vast Heron-Allen collection ...

The visage of a tiny velvet ant peers up in this scanning electron microscope image magnified 23 times. This tiny creature, genus Dasymutilla is not actually an ant at all, but a wasp.

The 2015 Nikon Small World competition collects the finest microscope photos from around the world. Nikon will release the winners on October 14. ... Foraminifera shells from the sea.