Tardigrade “water bear” crawling under 200x magnification. Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy is the technique I used here. Refraction of light and the optical path length enhances contrast in some specimens. Many of you are familiar with images of Tardigrades which are taken using Electron Microscopy, a very different technique yielding a colorless image which is often false-colored. Some popular Tardigrade images are cartoons or animations. Here is a live one, as it really looks in the wild, happily wiggling around. Note the difference of this video to my similar pervious one which used Brightfield microscopy. Feel free to share and repost, just please tag my profile to credit.
This is a series of posters I made to show how our perception of Dinosaurs and other animals of the mesozoic changed over the years. These and few more are featured in a Youtube video you can watch HERE
this art is available for prints, t-shirts and other goods HERE
The flame bowerbird is endemic to the rainforests of New Guinea. Shown above are the brightly colored males who build bowers and perform courtship displays to attract females.