Animalcule in Slippers

Инфузория-туфелька — the slipper-shaped ciliate

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all from parents to animalcule in slippers, to soulless cosmic dust, to the spark at the beginning of all

Paramecium caudatum. In Russian it is инфузория-туфелька. About two to three tenths of a millimetre long.

Under the lens

Paramecium caudatum, cultured, light micrograph
Paramecium caudatum, cultured, light micrograph

CC BY-SA 3.0 · Josef Reischig · Wikimedia Commons · licence

Drawn, 1874

Engraving of Paramecium caudatum, Popular Science Monthly vol. 5, 1874
Engraving of Paramecium caudatum, Popular Science Monthly vol. 5, 1874

Public domain · unknown engraver, Popular Science Monthly vol. 5 (1874) · Wikimedia Commons