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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The epic battle raging inside a drop of water: Microscope video reveals the tiniest of organisms at war

Who would have thought that water could be so terrifying?

Austrian multimedia art graduate Clemens Wirth filmed the extraordinary - and gruesome - life that can exist in just one single drop.

The creatures look like something from your worst nightmares, yet these microbes live all around us, in rivers, lakes and ponds.

Fight night: The method used to capture the creatures is called 'dark field microscopy', which leaves the background pitch black

Fight night: The method used to capture the creatures is called 'dark field microscopy', which leaves the background pitch black

Eye eye: This is one beasty you wouldn't want to meet if it was a million times bigger

Water bizarre sight: A monstrous microbe found in one drop

Water bizarre sight: A monstrous microbe found in one drop

Beast in a drop: A microbe that looks rather like a squid is one of millions that can fit in a tiny drop of water

Beast in a drop: A microbe that looks rather like a squid is one of millions that can fit in a tiny drop of water

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2127311/Micro-Empire-reveals-terrifying-creatures-single-drop-water.html

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