This is not Frank, the terrifying rabbit psychic mind-monster from Donnie Darko. It is a microscopic aquatic fly larva enlarged 20 times-one of the many beautiful pictures from Scientific American's slideshow of Nikon's Small World Photomicrography Competition.
Scientic American is so reliably awesome. Elsewhere in the slideshow, I find a sentence like, "Leave it to the diminutive diatoms to bring out algae's best side." At which I nod my head and chuckle to myself and think, Yeah, leave it to them. They'll do it every time. Lovable little buggers. And then I click the link to a previous Scientific American article and learn what diatoms are. They are "single-celled algae with shells made of glasslike silica" that are being looked at a potential source of biofuel. Apparently, there's oil in them thar diatoms.
Here is the beautiful micrograph of diatoms. They really do bring out algea's best side, don't they?
Neon Gold!
I would attend a church with these stained glass windows and that fly larva behind an altar.
This one time? My sister did a photomicrography project about these crazily colorful little slivers of rock cuttings. It was neat.
I thought the top one Alex Pareene and the bottom one his loyal followers.