Life on a grain of sand

[Plasmid]

These is a couple of images obtained from a garden grain of sand, I found a couple of structures within the surface of the grain that appeared to be biological, two of them look prokaryotic in nature, but aren't they too big to be bacterial?

[Greg Howald]

They do appear to be too big to be bacteria. You are only at 200 to 400x. But the structures throw me off too.
Greg

[mrsonchus]

Great idea for an interesting thread - enjoying the mysteries.

[Bruce Taylor]

I think the ones identified by arrows in the third image are fungal spores (ascomycetes).

That first one is intriguing!

(Corrected, third image not second)

[EYE C U]

I didn't get close enough to notice any when i shot this.

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[Plasmid]

Great idea for an interesting thread - enjoying the mysteries.

Im trying to come up with a similar effect but across the whole slide.

[Plasmid]

They do appear to be too big to be bacteria. You are only at 200 to 400x. But the structures throw me off too.
Greg

Thats what I thought too, but check out this video I got at 400x