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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?

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https://mdc.mo.gov/discovernature/fi... 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
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