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This is rescued sea turtle of the season #21.
It was found cold-stunned on a Cape Cod beach and brought to the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center for treatment. In any given year the Aquarium rehabilitates up to 150 sea turtles and releases them back into the wild. Learn more about this new group of patients here.
The Tardigrade Echiniscus spitsbergensis now called Testechiniscus spitzbergensis
From: ‘Contributions to the non-marine fauna of Spitsbergen. Part I. Preliminary notes, on report on the Rhizopoda, Tardigrada, Entomostraca’ (1897)
Confocal dataset representing a portion of the hematopoetic organ of Manduca sexta (Tobacco Hornworm). (via itg.beckman.illinois.edu)
