Tuesday, May 25, 2010

More Diatoms

From the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Flickr.

Diatom: Navicula speciosa
Navicula speciosa

Diatom: Coscinodiscus hallettii
Coscinodiscus hallettii

Diatom: Biddulphia cornigera
Biddulphia cornigera

Diatom: Auliscus palosverdes
Auliscus palosverdes

If you're interested in this kind of stuff - you know, the whole geometry in nature thing - check out Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature.

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