The #sand in Okinawa, #Japan contains thousands of tiny stars These grains of sand are actually exoskeletons of marine protozoa, which lived on the ocean floor 550 million years ago. #Nature#NatureLovers#NaturePhotography@mikako6
Via @Harshi Abeykoon
If you cultivate a mushroom in a petri bowl on agar agar, its actual “shape” becomes visible. The essential part of a mushroom, the Mycel, is usually hidden from our eye. What we perceive as a “mushroom” is only its transient fruit body. #naturephotography#Nature#naturelovers#biology#Science