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  1. There’s a German term used in biology for today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “overgrowth”: aufwuchs. 🐡🧪🌿It means the collection of small plants & animals that adhere to surfaces. At sea, in my field, we geophysicists tend to call the algae etc. that grows on equipment “biofouling.” In freshwater you get algae, insect larvae, rotifers & tardigrades, like this one.

    Tardigrades have short, plump legs & …

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