I apologize in advance for the poor video. I'm handholding an iPhone. Don't have a gadget to hold it steady yet. This is also my first attempt at putting a youtube video on this forum.
https://youtu.be/1v0n0AXM_fo
My google searches haven't turned up an ID for this. Is this one organism or several connected together and orchestrating this movement?
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Youtube has some pretty amazing AI going. When I clicked on my link to the video, Youtube brought up similar videos. So I now know I was seeing Bacillaria paxillifer. Wow what an amazing thing it is.
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Also known as 'Carpenter's rule' Bacillaria paradoxa later changed to Bacillaria paxillifer. An amazing movement in a colony of diatoms.
Last edited by Charles on Sun May 03, 2020 3:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Thats was pretty cool to watch, where did you find it?
Zeiss Photomicroscope III BF/DF/Pol/Ph/DIC/FL/Jamin-Lebedeff
Youtube channel
Youtube channel
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I took the water sample from a small creek leading to a marsh near my house in coastal Georgia. Saint Simons Island, GA. It is a tidal marsh, so the water might be brackish.