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Journey to the Microcosmos

Season 7 · Episode 43

We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken

0.08mJune 10, 2024

Our Master of Microscopes James was fascinated by something he found in some samples he had been given from Portugal. Something that would lead us to a kraken in the microcosmos…but how?

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Episode 1The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
Episode 2When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
Episode 3The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
Episode 4Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
Episode 5We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow
Episode 6Avoid These Tiny Bits of Killer Fluff (If You Can)
Episode 7This Neon World Is Inside Your Fruit
Episode 8Up Close With The World's Deadliest Animal
Episode 9Falling In Love With Microscopy
Episode 10The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
Episode 11Why Are Some Birds Blue?
Episode 12The Electric Relationship Between Plants And Bees
Episode 13Floating Cities of Scum
Episode 14Liverworts Use The Rain To Make Their Clones
Episode 15Bacteria That Survive In Gelatinous Colonies
Episode 16Is It Possible To Photosynthesize In The Dark?
Episode 17This Predator Is A Shape-Shifter
Episode 18Blood-Sucking Escape Artists
Episode 19This Microscopic Killer Wears Its Victims
Episode 20These Dancing Worms Are Surprisingly Useful
Episode 21Some Ciliates Are Hiding a Secret Weapon
Episode 22Can Microbes Just Appear Out Of Nowhere?
Episode 23Trying To Solve Some Micro Mysteries
Episode 24What Do These Algae Do With Four Genomes?
Episode 25The History of Red Algae
Episode 26These Mites Give Cheese Its Flavor
Episode 27Why Picocyanobacteria Might Just Outlast All Of Us
Episode 28We Built A Tardigrade Trap, And It Worked
Episode 29The Microbial Universe That Makes Kombucha
Episode 30This Microbe Hasn't Been Seen Since The 1930s
Episode 31What Makes A Microbe Rare?
Episode 32These Tiny Crustaceans Hate Change
Episode 33This special diatom is having a very bad day
Episode 34We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To
Episode 35These Slugs Led Us to the Last Good Place on the Internet
Episode 36How Do We Find Cancer?
Episode 37Watch a Stentor Fix Itself
Episode 38This Amoeba Made Armor From Its Dead Enemies
Episode 39We Found Something Strange in Portugal
Episode 40We've Been Looking For This Purple Amoeba for 6 Years!
Episode 41You Have Something in Common With This Horrifying Tube Worm
Episode 42Tiny Mysteries from the Black Sea
Episode 43We Found a Very, Very Tiny Kraken
Episode 44How Does The Microcosmos Change With the Seasons?
Episode 45Why Are Ciliates So Hairy?
Episode 46What These Microbes Teach Us About Free Will
Episode 47Microscopic Beauty from a Nuclear Test Site
Episode 48Why Do Planarians Have Those Triangles on their Heads?
Episode 49A Collection of Tiny Universes
Episode 50Some Microbes Also Take Naps
Episode 51We Answer Your Questions!
Episode 52We Spilled Ink On Our Slides to See What Would Happen
Episode 53The Future of Microscopy (and end of our Journey)