The Olympus BioScapes 2011 Winners Gallery is full of great photos and videos of micro bioscapes.
Floschularia Ringerns Rotifer feeding by Charles Crebs
Winning photo by Mr. Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington, USA
Specimen: Rotifer Floscularia ringens feeding. Its rapidly beating cilia (hair-like structures) bring water containing food to the rotifer
Technique: Differential interference contrast microscopy
The photo shows the microscopic animal’s self-made reddish tube-shaped home, with a building block in the process of being formed inside the rotifer’s body.
Related: 2006 Nikon Small World Photos – 50 Species of Diatoms – Art of Science at Princeton – Art of Science
Such a fantastic image, it really shows how wonderfully complex simple organisms really are.
Yes, It is really wonderful. It looks like an animal. Although is very beautiful.