Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
