2020 Small World in Motion Competition

This movie captures the almost dancelike movements of colonies of rotifers with their eggs. Mr. Brizzi actively studies and documents microorganisms that reside in highly polluted waters. This particular colony of rotifers is a rare variant of freshwater dwellers and taken using the darkfield microscopy technique. One of the biggest challenges to capturing this image is getting the colony transferred to a glass microscope slide without harming the organism.