Brittle stars

There are things I particularly like about what I do. For one thing, not many people have an electron microscope they can play with.

I recently took pictures of some brittle stars that the undergraduates brought back after a recent field trip. I think they assumed I was going to put them in a tank and take care of the poor little things. Instead, I stuck them in glutaraldehyde.

Never mind.

(Both the pictures are of the underside of the animals)