2024-05-13

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Journey to the Microcosmos

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When James, our master of microscopes, was looking through samples he’d received from Spain, he didn’t expect to see this—a creature straight out of a horror movie, with dark reddish brown eyes and tentacles streaming out of its mouth.

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SOURCES:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9191689/

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