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@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2026-01-03 14:30:04

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Happy New Year everyone. While species are often named out of respect for famous people, one had never been named for a TV series. This changed in 2018 when scientists at University College of London named a Southern Ocean cocolithophorid phytoplankton "Syracosphaera azureaplaneta" after Sir David Attenborough's BBC Blue Planet series. They look lik…

image/jpeg a scanning electron microscope darkfield photograph of a cluster of light blue oval algae cells with an enlarged outer diameter, making them look like inflatable boats. A scale bar indicates they are 2-5 microns long. Image by Jeremy Young CC-BY-SA 4.0.