And other really very VERY small things.....THREAT THURSDAY at the Animal Demography Unit: They’re tiny… they’re limbless… and most people do not even know of their existence! Yet, according to a quote by Dr. Nathan Augustus Cobb (1914): “…if all the matter in the universe except the NEMATODES were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable…” This is because these unsegmented roundworms are found in nearly all environments. Nematology, which is the youngest of the zoological disciplines, is divided along taxonomic lines into the study of plant-, insect-, animal- and human-parasitic and free-living nematodes. Click on the photo to read more....
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:41:02 +0000
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