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This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to https://squarespace.com/microcosmos to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. One of the fascinating aspects of microscopy is the way you can look so deeply into something that it becomes unrecognizable. What could look like a stained glass window could actually turn out to be... a hopping shrimp? Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Shop The Microcosmos: https://www.microcosmos.store Support the Microcosmos: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4UedbiTeN96izf-CxEPbg Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music by Andrew Huang: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhuang Journey to the Microcosmos is a Complexly production. Find out more at https://www.complexly.com SOURCES: https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/scuds-sideswimmers-amphipods https://www.britannica.com/animal/amphipod https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/scuds-sideswimmers-amphipods: The various appendages have different purposes: armlike gnathopods at the front for feeding, followed by leglike pleopods for swimming, waving water across the gills, and other types of locomotion https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/tools-and-resources/identification/freshwater-invertebrates-guide/identification-guide-what-freshwater-invertebrate-is-this/jointed-legs/crustaceans/amphipods/amphipods-corophium/ https://academic.oup.com/book/4028/chapter-abstract/145676120?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://www.jstor.org/stable/1541041 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22905166/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/120828-amphipods-oceans-mariana-trench-wood-science-animals https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128009499000115 https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2015/1/BIR_2015_Paganelli_etal.pdf https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40743/10361653 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/8902/12937542 https://www.fws.gov/species/noels-amphipod-gammarus-desperatus https://zse.pensoft.net/article/89957/ #journeytothemicrocosmos #crusteaceans