I got my first microscope for my 9th birthday. Soon afterwards, I discovered pond water, and the true character of scum. I found exactly ho...

Apologies for disappearing for a while. Some incidents in my personal life have interfered with my writing. Should be back in the mood again...

Sorry, guys... behind on my Eukaryote Biodiversity posting... got caught up in a LOT of madness related to 6 courses and some very horribly ...

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2009, everyone! Vancouver is thoroughly covered in snow! As a former resident of Toronto, I get plenty of...

Going to be mostly absent from the internet until the 4th. Happy holidays, everyone! Probably won't be able to post protists until then,...

Occasionally, I do go out. In anticipation of such an unlikely event, I usually have an eppie tube or two and possibly a ziplock bag in my p...

Possibly the world's largest cell: Source A deep-dwelling marine foraminiferan (Kingdom Rhizaria) that is one large multinucleate cell. ...

There seems to be lots of confusion as to what a protist really is. This is quite understandable, since the chaos has deep historical roots....

If you're a unicellular organism, chances are you might want motility at some point or another. Being able to move helps escape predator...

A genus that sums up my life perfectly: Chaos (Amoebozoa) source We were looking at amoebae today. This one is quite huge -- a couple milime...