School of Anthias over green algae
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Image courtesy of Corel Photography
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A Matter of Scale - interactive showing the sizes of things, from very tiny to huge - from NSF
Microscopic Fossils Offer Big Clues to Earth's Climate
Kingdom Protista
Members of the Kingdom Protista are an unusual group of organisms that
were put together because they don't really seem to belong to any other
group. Some protists look or act like
plants, others look and act like
animals, but they're not!
In some ways, the Kingdom Protista is home for the "leftover" organisms that couldn't be classified elsewhere. You might not think a tiny one-celled amoeba has much in common with a giant sea kelp, but they're both members of this kingdom.
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