radiolarian

• “The stone type quarried is unique to the Sarikaya quarry, as it can be microscopically classified as radiolarian mudstone.”

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• “The key to Haeckel's vision was a tiny undersea organism called the radiolarian, one of the earliest forms of life.”

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• “OTOH, how can you resist a guy who uses the word radiolarian in his lyrics?)”

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• “Bird's lyrics often feature archaic language - words such as radiolarian, plecostomus, dermestids, coprophagia - which he chooses mainly for their sound, but not at the expense of their meaning.”

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• “(Soundbite of music) Mr. BIRD: (Singing) (Unintelligible) radiolarian … BLOCK: What's a radiolarian?”

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• “Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).”

  Marine microbes

• “Here are atoms of silica, once imprisoned in a layer of flint in the subterranean darkness; later, within the fragile shell of a diatom, tossed by waves and warmed by the sun; and again entering into the exquisite structure of a radiolarian shell, that miracle of ephemeral beauty that might be the work of a fairy glass-blower with a snowflake as his pattern.”

  Undersea (historical)

• “On the table was a glass model that Elizabeth assumed represented some intricate protist organism such as a marine radiolarian.”

  The Golden Torc

• “From the depths of his memory there came to Kirk a biology-class vision of the long glass spike of a radiolarian, a microscopic marine animal, with protoplasm streaming along it, mindless and voracious.”

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• “This type of chert contains the skeletons of innumerable radiolarian creatures.”

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