If you unexpectedly swallow a mouthful of seawater, then you just ate a bizarre microfauna sneaking around in just a single drop of seawater.
This is the picture of a random splash of seawater magnified 25 times. It was captured by an award-winning National Geographic photographer David Liitschwager.
So next time you go to the beach, just be mindful that the taste of seawater isn’t just salt – it’s plankton – it’s a pack of micro-creatures which includes marine worms, fish eggs, crab larva, copepods, diatoms and many other enough to ruin your appetite.
- Image: National Geographic
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And there’s probably a universe within each of those micro creatures. It just goes on and on…
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Not a pleasant thought to inadvertently swallow that. But it is amazing and impressive that all of that is in one drop!
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Reblogged this on cooksrus blog and commented:
Amazing sea life
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IS GOOD IN THIS STUFF….IN TERMS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE…IN MY OPIN ION…THEY BOUGHT INTO THE POLITICAL CRAP HOO LINE AND SINKER! eVEEN SOME SO-CALLED “SCIENTISITS” HAVE BEEN FORCED TO ADMIT THEY LIED OR FUDGED THE GLOBAL WARMING DATA TO SUIT POLITICAL PURPOSES!!! 😦
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Reblogged this on Read by Kevin and commented:
Drink deep, people.
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Looks delicious!
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Oh man, so much nutrition with every gulp!
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i’ll make sure to keep my mouth close and not accidentally swallow seawater at the beach next week! 😀
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Yeah, you’d better. 😀
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EEEeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww !!!!
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🙂
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Some of these little buggers are stranger than fiction. It’s fascinating to think of all the marvelous things that lurk well beyond human perception.
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Yeah, it is. We have only discovered half or less of all the species on Earth and much of undiscovered species are microscopic sea lives. Who knows what else nature’s got to surprise us.
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Scary but beautiful.
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Yeah, it looks like a drawing. 😀
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I do love the picture, it reminds me of the “Where’s Waldo” books I used to purchase for my children when they were young. Not exactly sure If I’d want to drink an iced cold, frosted glass of it, though. LOL!
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Don’t even think about it, it could kill you. 😛
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That looks like the most amazing drawing.
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Exactly! 😀
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I think this stuff is awesome! Finding itty bitty bugs is half the reason I raise tadpoles every year.
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That’s interesting! 😀
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What makes them ‘quite nauseating’? This is too tabloid for science reporting.
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Thanks, what’s your suggestion, Sir? I think you only read the excerpt. 😉
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My suggestion would be simply to state the facts. ‘Stomach churning’ is an assumed relation not everyone will share. You’re right about the extract.
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Thank you, Sir. Done as suggested.
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Reblogged this on nowstuffnow Conspiracy Theory, Parody, Irony & Satire.
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