Journey to the Microcosmos | The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies @journeytomicro | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Imagine that this is the beginning of the last thing you’ll ever see, an empty landscape with thin lines scratched across it. But those lines suddenly sharpen and gather into a dense mass that spreads from the crown that sits atop a giant, studded with greens and yellows. A giant that is in search of one thing: food.

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SOURCES:
microscopyu.com/gallery-images/collotheca-rotifera
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/rotifera/rotifera.html
microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/rotidr.html
https://web.deu.edu.tr/atiksu/ana55/other1.html
nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bdelloid-rotifers-80-million-years-without-sex
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10236244.2017.1344554
gbif.org/species/1000703
researchgate.net/profile/Sss-Sarma/publication/340493224_Observations_on_the_egg_types_and_males_of_Collotheca_tenuilobata_Anderson_Rotifera_Collothecidae/links/5e8d043ba6fdcca789fde0b7/Observations-on-the-egg-types-and-males-of-Collotheca-tenuilobata-Anderson-Rotifera-Collothecidae.pdf

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