#dinoflagellate

[emmaklee]

(via Uriel Ruiz on Instagram: “Ornithocercus A crowned dinoflagellate. Dinos generally have cellulose plates as a cell wall. At the ultrastructure level it is quite…”)

#dinoflagellate #microbiology

[pinaul8tuhnh]

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#geoponical #isostatically #sachemic #equivalencies #boltropes #sorning #stuffies #impersuadable #quarter-phase #interpolators #Okemos #Inf #synalgic #dinoflagellate #yarovization #nonagrarian #equiponderated #disfavors #handbag #lubricities

[boowasphone]

#inspired by @/dinoflagellates rb. sorry #limbus company #main tagging it

[anglerflsh]

>reads an article about climate change in late antiquity based on a study of downcore fossil dinoflagellate cyst association >does not undertand a word of the scientific side of said article >picks up next article on a similar topic

>yeah

#[.txt] #I know what uh. whatever dinoflagellate cysts are they must be very cool and interesting #but all I got from that bit of the study was that they change based on water variables #and that's all I need to know about them. godbless #that like. biology. right? it has to do with algae? I think?? fascinating little bugs I'm sure

[dr-albert-g-krueger]

what do you think about bioluminescence me personally i think its one of the most beautiful things nature has to offer

Your taste and mine are quite alike then! I fully agree.

While there are many ways for creatures on this earth to produce a glow, I do have a personal favorite:

What you are looking at right now is all produced by these tiny organisms (Dinoflagellates) as reaction to being disturbed by the oceans currents.

And this is what they look like under a mycroscope:

You can even wittness them yourself on our coasts and beaches in summer and autumn. Please call me then - I take every chance to see them and take samples.

#ask dr. krueger #twdak #albert krueger #dr albert krueger #marine biology #bioluminescence #(ooc just chiming in to say i find it hilarious that they are called DINOflagellates)

[merismo]

Sorry for the shaky footage (I really ought to get a stand for my phone) but would you believe it! It’s Noctiluca scintilans!

They’re known for causing bioluminescent waves that glow bright blue…. At least when there are a lot of them. I collected a plankton tow sample off the coast of LA and this was the only one I found. You can’t really make glowy waves when there’s just one of you, but I applaud him for trying his best.

#also thats the flagella that dinoflagellates get their name from #also shout out to the kind fellow at the dock who helped me (a random stranger) collect plankton!

[quotesfrommyreading]

More recently, bioluminescence has evolved from laboratory tool to commercial plaything. The Kickstarter-funded, San Francisco-based Glowing Plant Project offers customers DIY kits they can use to genetically engineer a luminous Arabidopsis plant at home. And Carlsbad, California-based BioPop has released what is essentially an illuminated version of that long beloved novelty pet for kids, Sea-Monkeys (which are not in fact tiny aquatic primates, but rather brine shrimp). They call it Dino Pet: a small, vaguely Apatosaurus-shaped aquarium filled with bioluminescent plankton known as dinoflagellates. During the day, the plankton photosynthesize; at night, if you shut off the lights and give the aquarium a good shake, the dinoflagellates light up turquoise, much like the “fiery sparks” Chinese sailors observed in churning seawater so long ago. But the glow is only good for about three shakes a night, and if you’re too rough, you could damage or kill the plankton.

It’s easy to pity those tiny swimming stars trapped in a plastic bubble. Each night, some titan’s hand engulfs their ocean and churns it into a maelstrom for a few moments of selfish delight. Then the monster puts away their entire universe, easy as shutting the lid on a music box. They are kept alive solely for the purpose of this bedside magic trick.

Perhaps, though, we are the more pathetic members of this relationship—the gods bewitched by a gnat. Bottling bioluminescence gives us a sense of ownership over a presumably rare and otherworldly phenomenon; the reality of the situation is quite different. Bioluminescence is so commonplace on our planet—particularly in the oceans—that scientists estimate the thousands of glowing species they have catalogued so far are just a fraction of the sum. It may well be that the vast majority of deep-sea creatures, which live beyond the Sun’s reach, generate their own light (sometimes with the assistance of microbes). They use these innate glows primarily to communicate: to warn and frighten, hide and hunt, lure and beguile. Bioluminescence is one of the oldest and most prevalent languages on Earth—and one that is largely alien to us. Despite our fantasies and mythologies, the truth is that there’s nothing supernatural about living light; it has been a part of nature for eons. It’s just that we were denied this particular gift.

So, with perhaps too little gratitude, we adapted the incomparable talents of glowing creatures for our own purposes. We borrowed their light and it revealed things about our own biology we might never have discovered otherwise. But that is all we can do—borrow. We cannot be them, so we seek them out, and draw them near us—every bit as mesmerized as when we thought the Sun had impregnated the sea. To this day, we cup them in our hands, collect them in jars, and place them on our nightstand, forever trying to satisfy our Promethean hunger.

  —  The Secret History of Bioluminescence

#ferris jabr #the secret history of bioluminescence #science #biology #microbiology #marine biology #botany #animals #chemistry #physics #commerce #psychology #arabidopsis thaliana #dinoflagellates #bioluminescence #light

[heedra]

living on the salish sea rules bc i can drive ten minutes to a place where i can look out on the waters and see absolutely fucking buckwild creatures

#sand dollar. anemone. nudibranch. seal. lizard. pipefish. bioluminescent dinoflagellate. whale if im lucky.

[eldritch-eternity]

#dinoflagellates #biology #microbiology #no you don't get context #its tripolosenia bicornis

[dinoflagellates]

wtf

#freiguck dinoflagellates famous

[championsofmyheart]

everyone go check out the wikipedia page for ceratocorys rn

#HI I WROTE IT. GO LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIFUL DINOFLAGELLATES #fuckery #i should make a science tag i think #mework

[ejunkiet]

i'm writing a love letter to bioluminescence (featuring werewolves) instead of sleeping. may have a few regrets tomorrow but that's tomorrow EJ's problem

#blood moon if #ej writes blood moon #so you don't have to travel far to find the bioluminescent algae #well - dinpflagellates really #dark water pretty lights #most romantic holiday i've been on was in california #we camped. we saw the perseides. we went kayaking in the bioluminescence #we're still friends even if it didn't work out #DINOFLAGELLATES GDI #the worst place to have a typo - mid tag 😭

[rosewind2007]

Last night we walked down to the beach and looked at the unfamiliar stars and listened to the sea lap the sands, and tumbling in the surf I spotted little balls of green light! Little glowing bioluminescent bundles! I saw the sea glow as a child growing up in Cornwall, green shimmering trails behind my hand dangled over the side of the boat, magical then…and (staring out to sea at the faintly ghostly glow of the buoys) magical again now here 4,500 miles from my birth…

#sea glowing #bioluminescence #dinoflagellates #Cornwall #Jamaica #no I didn’t get a photo it was nighttime on the beach #no we never photographed it as a child either #it was unexpected then too #beautiful

[parmysan]

Dinoflagellates

#ocean art #dinoflagellates #paintings

[er-cryptid]

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[m3nyas]

#why us it in the middke of the day i cabt think of anything to do but at night i realize dear lird i need to learn about dinoflagellates