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@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2026-06-28 17:38:26

Hello everyone.
I am taking a social media wellness break from posting my Weekend #Plankton Factoids for the boreal summer. I hope you have the opportunity to do something you enjoy over the season as well. Until then ❤️.

A tiny crustacean zooplankton with a long spine "nose" looks like a elephant or the Mastodon logo. Bosmina longirostis.
The Mastodon logo is a a stylized elephant with trunk extending underneath in purple with a curvy white M on top.
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2026-06-21 17:02:28

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Researchers that work on zooplankton are all familiar with fecal pellets since it is a major pathway of #carbon flux to the bottom of the oceans. A study recently measured gut passage time of

image/jpeg a microscope image of a crustacean shrimp-like copepod with bright green fluorescent particles in its gut. Photo from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML).