biocanvas:

Volvox aureus, a type of freshwater green algae, with daughter colonies.

Image by Gerd Günther.

deliciousdimension:

Pattern appears to be a universal design principal, a binding force, which inspires all of life and nature.

scipsy:

Diatom (via AWI)

thefindesiecle:

Rouget. Verneuil, M. P. (Maurice Pillard), 1869. From L’animal dans la décoration.

[via NYPL]

(via scientificillustration)

scientificillustration:

Plocamium coccineum

From: ‘Sea mosses a collector’s guide and an introduction to the study of marine Algae’ By A. B. Hervey. Published 1893

sabrinacampagna:

The British desmidieae (1848)

Author: Ralfs, John; Jenner, Edward, 1803-1872
Subject: Desmidieae; Algae — Great Britain
Publisher: London : Reeve, Benham, and Reeve

via: Archive

(Source: infinity-imagined)

infinity-imagined:

Desmid Mitosis

infinity-imagined:

Coccolithophores are microscopic algae that first appeared 220 million years ago, and flourished during the cretaceous period.  They produce peculiar plates called cocoliths out of calcium carbonate, and  incorporate them into an external shell.  They constantly remove carbon from the atmosphere as they die and sink to the ocean floor, producing chalk.  This is an important feedback system in the global carbon cycle.

Seriously, how does cellular machinery produce these structures?  Life is amazing.

coccoliths?

(Source: infinity-imagined)

A garden of earthly delights in Brasil.

scipsy:

The odd one out

mudwerks:

Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition | Image Gallery - 2010

Dr. Jerzy Gubernator

 Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw

Wroclaw, Poland
Specimen: Spirogyra
Technique: Brightfield

(via scientificillustration)

Desmid dividing.  See the video:

http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2009/hm47.html

Conjugation in Spirogyra.  Check out this video:

http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/gallery/2009/3.html