diatom

• There you were, about 100 million years ago, maybe a contented little diatom or a great big Brontosaurus stumbling around the edge of a tar pit – a lord of the earth.
• He found himself in a vast cylinder walled in by turbulent currents, like the eye of a hurricane: Ahead; against the dark glowed two symbols -- diatom graphs. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
• Some people thought the dinosaurs must have designed them; others favored a passing alien race that had inadvertently—or deliberately—left behind their technology while picnicking on a beach somewhere Either way, the diatom-assembled devices worked, and scientists were suddenly busy taking them back apart and figuring out how. —  AnalogSFF,December2006
• Last year, Siver discovered a new genus of diatom (he has discovered 60 new species over the past 20 years) that sheds light on the origin of the "raphe" -- a slit that appears along the long axis of pennate diatoms. —  TreeHugger
• A typical diatom, Chaetoceros sp., and a phytoplankton community three weeks after fertilization. —  TreeHugger

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