Haeckel's beautiful radiolarians


	Haeckel's beautiful radiolarians
JohnWaterman
8-9-2008 8:13 AM
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8-9-2008 5:31 PM
meancookie89
These are awesome and unique like snowflakes.
8-9-2008 11:43 PM
tanyamm
Very pretty.
8-12-2008 1:11 PM
skwirlinator
These would be cool as individual web graphics, buttons and accents. Some are really gothy
8-12-2008 1:12 PM
JohnWaterman
Some are really gothy
I thought so too.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9461e75-520f-4d1b-b3c6-903acabf2fd8/A0246E92-F5DD-4AE0-8521-CF5A426F8DD5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haeckel_Phaeodaria_61.jpg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haeckel_Phaeodaria_61.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Haeckel_Phaeodaria_61.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/DCDBA1D4-9DF9-4ED6-80D8-E08BDCB93D39" alt="Image:Haeckel Phaeodaria 61.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiolarian&oldid=227051437" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiolarian&oldid=227051437" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiolarian&oldid=227051437"><P><B>Radiolarians</B> (also <B>radiolaria</B>) are <A title="Amoeboid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeboid">amoeboid</A> <A title="Protozoa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozoa">protozoa</A> that produce intricate <A title="Mineral" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral">mineral</A> <A title="Skeleton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton">skeletons</A>, typically with a central capsule dividing the <A title="Cell (biology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28biology%29">cell</A> into inner and outer portions, called <A title="Endoplasm" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoplasm">endoplasm</A> and <A title="Ectoplasm" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoplasm">ectoplasm</A>. They are found as <A title="Zooplankton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton">zooplankton</A> throughout the ocean, and because of their rapid turn-over of species, their tests are important <A title="Fossil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil">diagnostic fossils</A> found from the <A title="Cambrian" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian">Cambrian</A> onwards. Some common radiolarian fossils include <I><A title="Actinomma (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actinomma&action=edit&redlink=1">Actinomma</A></I>, <I><A title="Heliosphaera (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heliosphaera&action=edit&redlink=1">Heliosphaera</A></I> and <I><A title="Hexadoridium (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hexadoridium&action=edit&redlink=1">Hexadoridium</A></I>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiolarian&oldid=227051437"><P>German biologist <A title="Ernst Haeckel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel">Ernst Haeckel</A> produced exquisite (and perhaps somewhat exaggerated)<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since June 2008">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SPAN></SUP> drawings of radiolaria, helping to popularize these protists among Victorian <A title="Citizen science" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science">parlor</A> microscopists alongside <A title="Foraminifera" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera">foraminifera</A> and <A title="Diatom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom">diatoms</A>.<BR clear="all" /></P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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