How Does an Amoeba Eat Without a Mouth?
An amoeba has no mouth and no fixed shape, yet it hunts paramecia and algae. Here is how it flows, traps food in a cup and digests it inside its body.
Microbe Stories
Short, fun stories about the tiny creatures living in a drop of pond water. Every story is checked against real biology sources, and you can play as each microbe in Micro Pond.
Didinium: The Tiny Predator That Swallows Prey Bigger Than Itself
Didinium paralyzes a paramecium with poison darts, then stretches its mouth like a balloon to swallow prey bigger than itself.
Paramecium: The Slipper That Rows With Thousands of Oars
A paramecium swims about 1 mm per second using thousands of beating cilia, backs away from walls and carries two nuclei. Meet the pond's speedy slipper.
