#zooplankton — Public Fediverse posts

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Active Predators: Unlike microscopic plankton that passively filter algae, ctenophores are voracious carnivores, using sticky cells called colloblasts to capture smaller zooplankton, larval fish, and even other comb jellies. So while they are technically plankton by lifestyle, they are one of the most evolutionary fascinating, visually breathtaking predators drifting in the water column!

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Active Predators: Unlike microscopic plankton that passively filter algae, ctenophores are voracious carnivores, using sticky cells called colloblasts to capture smaller zooplankton, larval fish, and even other comb jellies. So while they are technically plankton by lifestyle, they are one of the most evolutionary fascinating, visually breathtaking predators drifting in the water column!

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Active Predators: Unlike microscopic plankton that passively filter algae, ctenophores are voracious carnivores, using sticky cells called colloblasts to capture smaller zooplankton, larval fish, and even other comb jellies. So while they are technically plankton by lifestyle, they are one of the most evolutionary fascinating, visually breathtaking predators drifting in the water column!

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Active Predators: Unlike microscopic plankton that passively filter algae, ctenophores are voracious carnivores, using sticky cells called colloblasts to capture smaller zooplankton, larval fish, and even other comb jellies. So while they are technically plankton by lifestyle, they are one of the most evolutionary fascinating, visually breathtaking predators drifting in the water column!

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Active Predators: Unlike microscopic plankton that passively filter algae, ctenophores are voracious carnivores, using sticky cells called colloblasts to capture smaller zooplankton, larval fish, and even other comb jellies. So while they are technically plankton by lifestyle, they are one of the most evolutionary fascinating, visually breathtaking predators drifting in the water column!

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Light Specialists: That stunning rainbow glow in Pete Harmsen's photograph isn't bioluminescence; it's diffraction. As their cilia beat to move them through the water, they scatter light into a brilliant, shifting spectrum.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Light Specialists: That stunning rainbow glow in Pete Harmsen's photograph isn't bioluminescence; it's diffraction. As their cilia beat to move them through the water, they scatter light into a brilliant, shifting spectrum.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Light Specialists: That stunning rainbow glow in Pete Harmsen's photograph isn't bioluminescence; it's diffraction. As their cilia beat to move them through the water, they scatter light into a brilliant, shifting spectrum.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Light Specialists: That stunning rainbow glow in Pete Harmsen's photograph isn't bioluminescence; it's diffraction. As their cilia beat to move them through the water, they scatter light into a brilliant, shifting spectrum.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Light Specialists: That stunning rainbow glow in Pete Harmsen's photograph isn't bioluminescence; it's diffraction. As their cilia beat to move them through the water, they scatter light into a brilliant, shifting spectrum.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Master Swimmers: They are the largest animals in the world to move using cilia (microscopic hair-like structures). Rows of these cilia, called "comb plates," beat in synchronized waves to propel them.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Master Swimmers: They are the largest animals in the world to move using cilia (microscopic hair-like structures). Rows of these cilia, called "comb plates," beat in synchronized waves to propel them.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Master Swimmers: They are the largest animals in the world to move using cilia (microscopic hair-like structures). Rows of these cilia, called "comb plates," beat in synchronized waves to propel them.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Master Swimmers: They are the largest animals in the world to move using cilia (microscopic hair-like structures). Rows of these cilia, called "comb plates," beat in synchronized waves to propel them.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

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Master Swimmers: They are the largest animals in the world to move using cilia (microscopic hair-like structures). Rows of these cilia, called "comb plates," beat in synchronized waves to propel them.

#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

Iridescent ctenophore by Pete Harmsen

Ctenophores (comb jellies) are technically classified as gelatinous zooplankton, but they are extraordinary creatures in several key ways:

Pioneers of the Animal Kingdom: Phylogenetically, ctenophores are among the oldest animal lineages on Earth, having diverged long before complex fish or crustaceans evolved.

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

Iridescent ctenophore by Pete Harmsen

Ctenophores (comb jellies) are technically classified as gelatinous zooplankton, but they are extraordinary creatures in several key ways:

Pioneers of the Animal Kingdom: Phylogenetically, ctenophores are among the oldest animal lineages on Earth, having diverged long before complex fish or crustaceans evolved.

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

Iridescent ctenophore by Pete Harmsen

Ctenophores (comb jellies) are technically classified as gelatinous zooplankton, but they are extraordinary creatures in several key ways:

Pioneers of the Animal Kingdom: Phylogenetically, ctenophores are among the oldest animal lineages on Earth, having diverged long before complex fish or crustaceans evolved.

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

Iridescent ctenophore by Pete Harmsen

Ctenophores (comb jellies) are technically classified as gelatinous zooplankton, but they are extraordinary creatures in several key ways:

Pioneers of the Animal Kingdom: Phylogenetically, ctenophores are among the oldest animal lineages on Earth, having diverged long before complex fish or crustaceans evolved.

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

Iridescent ctenophore by Pete Harmsen

Ctenophores (comb jellies) are technically classified as gelatinous zooplankton, but they are extraordinary creatures in several key ways:

Pioneers of the Animal Kingdom: Phylogenetically, ctenophores are among the oldest animal lineages on Earth, having diverged long before complex fish or crustaceans evolved.

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton
#ctenophores

Beyond the cute 'Pokémon' figures of the deep, there’s this: microscopic zooplankton. Translucent, iridescing, and utterly alien, these delicate creatures form the vital link that powers almost all marine life on Earth

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton

Beyond the cute 'Pokémon' figures of the deep, there’s this: microscopic zooplankton. Translucent, iridescing, and utterly alien, these delicate creatures form the vital link that powers almost all marine life on Earth

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton

Beyond the cute 'Pokémon' figures of the deep, there’s this: microscopic zooplankton. Translucent, iridescing, and utterly alien, these delicate creatures form the vital link that powers almost all marine life on Earth

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton

Beyond the cute 'Pokémon' figures of the deep, there’s this: microscopic zooplankton. Translucent, iridescing, and utterly alien, these delicate creatures form the vital link that powers almost all marine life on Earth

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton

Beyond the cute 'Pokémon' figures of the deep, there’s this: microscopic zooplankton. Translucent, iridescing, and utterly alien, these delicate creatures form the vital link that powers almost all marine life on Earth

#photography
#MarineLife
#biodiversity
#plankton
#zooplankton