Get introduced to protists and fungi with the Amoeba Sisters! This video explores basic cell type, mode of feeding, habitat examples, and ecology of both protists and fungi. This video also mentions a few examples of how protists and...

Learn how scientists are fighting cancer... with algae!

Hank veers away from human anatomy to teach us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists. They are by far the most...

We often focus on the organisms, but what about the even smaller world inside of them?

With support from the National Science Foundation, Lake Ecologist Jasmine Saros and her team from the University of Maine are plying the lake waters of southwestern Greenland, gathering samples of ""diatoms"" to study how climate change...

The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos

Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors

How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells

We owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!

ECU T/L Shot of Naviculoid Diatoms moving and diatoms are primary producer of hydrocarbons which after millions of years of being buried underground are precursor to crude oil.

ECU T/L Shot of Amoeba is unicellular organism with constantly changing shape with moving forwards by sending out pseudopods which help it to crawl along surface and Diatoms are also moving / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

ECU T/L Shot of Amoeba is unicellular organism with constantly changing shape with moving forwards by sending out pseudopods which help it to crawl along surface and Diatoms are also moving / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

ECU T/L Shot of Amoeba is unicellular organism with constantly changing shape with moving forwards by sending out pseudopods which help it to crawl along surface and Diatoms are also moving / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

Time lapse Procaryotic cell (Oscillatoriales). Blue green algae moving across screen. ECU. Diatom visible

Micrography of marine diatoms, mostly Gyrosigma sp., Diatoms are a type of marine alga, and form a substantial part of the phytoplankton. Diatom cells are encased in a wall of silica called a frustule

ECU Microscopic Plankton drifting in water, Bermuda

ECU Shot of Diatoms moving slowly forming algal mats (Green Algae) / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

Time lapse Procaryotic cell (Oscillatoriales). Blue green algae moving across screen. ECU. Diatom visible

T/L blue green algae filaments moving; procaryote cell (Oscillatoriales) and diatom

Micro organisms: diatoms. Film montage

ECU Shot of Diatoms moving slowly forming algal mats (Green Algae) / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

ECU Shot of Diatoms moving slowly forming algal mats (Green Algae) / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

ECU PAN Shot of Diatoms moving slowly forming algal mats (Green Algae) / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

ECU Shot of Diatoms moving slowly forming algal mats (Green Algae) / Newcastle Emlyn, Ceredigion, United Kingdom