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Microscopic Sea Battle

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Our good friend Akihiro Shiroza, a marine biologist at NOAA here in Miami, spends most of his working hours looking at the planktonic larvae of fish, corals, crustaceans, etc., under microscope. He was kind enough to share photos of some of the cool plankton he encounters. It appears here that he discovered a squid vs. shrimp battle of micro-mythological proportions. He used a polarizing filter to get the cool rainbow background effect. We’ll look forward to more of Aki’s photographic finds here in the future.