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THESE TINY CREATURES= ARE MARVELOUS
Saturday, August 13, 2022
In today’s newsletter, w= e discover the miraculous, miniature life forms= that make a forest grow, examine when facemasks were scandalous, learn why inspiration often strikes in the shower … and w= itness the evacuation of a 500-year-ol= d mummy=2E Plus, Leonardo da Vinci’s secret=2E
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY OLIVE= R MECKES AND NICOLE OTTOWA


What makes a forest grow? A photographer and biologist put microscopic fun= gi, roots, and slime molds from Germany’s Black Forest under a scann= ing electron microscope—and found creatures like this astounding tar= digrade (above) among the forest’s essential, and often overlooked, = life forms=2E

This discovery in the moss on a tree trunk, magnified = 2,400 times, marked a newfound species among the 1,300 known types of tardi= grades, says photographer Oliver Meckes=2E = 01C;We always thought we knew a lot about the cycles of life and what happe= ns to a tree when it falls and decays,” Meckes tells our French edit= ion colleague Marie-Am=C3=A9lie Carpio=2E = 1C;But what we learned with this assignment was how complex these processes= are, and the myriad creatures involved!”

See the full st= ory here—and other small-scale discoveries below=2E

Please, consider getting our full digital report and magazine by subscribing here=2E
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What are these egglike spheres? Fungi like= this Resinicium bicolor—shown magnified 7,000 t= imes—start breaking down dead trees by digesting lignin, the complex= compound that helps form woody cell walls in plants=2E There would be no s= oil without microscopic life, including fungi, mites, and worms=2E
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Magnified 14,000 times: Scales of silica cover= the single-celled body of a testate amoeba=2E These types of amoebas are n= amed for the hard shells they create, possibly for protection against envir= onmental changes within the forest litter=2E
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‘Good’ slime: Resembling a fairy= ’s gift basket, the fruiting body of a slime mold, magnified 400 tim= es, releases spores from its perch on woody debris draped in fungal filamen= ts=2E Slime molds feast on other microbes found in decaying plant matter=2E
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A kind of honeycomb? Some mycorrhizal fungi ma= ke their homes inside plant cells, as seen in this cross section of a Europ= ean blueberry root=2E This allows soil residents of very different sizes to= exchange nutrients—helping the forest=2E This image is magnified 2,= 200 times=2E See more here=2E
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STO= RIES WE’RE FOLLOWING
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PHOTOGRAPH BY SOFIA = LOPEZ MA=C3=91AN
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Saving the world’s biggest bird of prey (above, Andean condo= r chicks inside an incubator are fed by ‘condor puppets’)
See: How life for one family in Afghanistan has changed in the year sin= ce the U=2ES=2E pulled out
Staid? Try scandalous! That was the view of= these early, fashionable facemasks
From vision to intention: How the ‘M= ona Lisa’ painter outlined his world-changing inventions
= Why do great ideas flow in the shower? Science has an answer
Map: 75 years = ago, here’s the traumatic way that India was split
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Evacuated: This 500-year-old mummified chamois= , an Alpine goat-antelope mix, lies exposed on an Austrian glacier near the= Italian border=2E The remains of a young female were taken from the rapidl= y melting glacier to preserve them, Nat Geo reports=2E=

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Who helps America? At a time when the U=2ES=2E= seems to be getting torn apart, photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Andrea Bruce has focused on peopl= e building community in the 246-year-old democracy=2E A new Nat Geo story s= potlights people helping others, driven by a deep need= that unites people=2E Members of the Blackfeet Nation’s Tatsey family (pictured above) help connect tribal childr= en with their ancestry=2E
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When people get shot, journalists cover it in a way that’s ‘= this has got to stop’ but there is no critique of the system that pu= ts people in a terrible situation consistently=2E Why are we there besides = taking photos and film?
 
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Cinematographer, documentary photographer, and Nat Geo Explorer who focuse= s on urban life, gun violence, and racism in marginalized communities
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Sleepy time: Even as a drone hovered above= to get this image, a large male polar bear that photographer Martin Gregus, Jr=2E calls Scar never stirred in this bed of= fireweed=2E Gregus says he named many of the bears in hopes it would help = people relate to them as individuals needing protection=2E He spent two mon= ths in the Canadian Arctic and his photos reveal a softer side of the wo= rld’s largest terrestrial predator=2E “You always see polar b= ears on ice and snow,” he says=2E “But it’s not like t= hey stop living in the summertime=2E”
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THE BEARS OF SUMMER
Clarification: In last week’s Photo newsletter on th= e = visual power of volcanoes, Fi= re and Love director Sara Dosa mentioned she was in= Iceland before the latest volcanic eruption, but she was not filming then= =2E Here's our latest on the mysteries lurking below Ice= land's surface=2E

This newsletter has been c= urated and edited by David Beard, Jen Tse, Heather Kim, Anne Kim-Dannibale,= and Allie Yang=2E Amanda Williams-Bryant, Alec Egamov, Rita Spinks, and Je= remy Brandt-Vorel also contributed this week=2E Have an idea for us? <= a style=3D"color:#000000; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 2px solid = #ffcc00; " target=3D"_blank" class=3D"msotextlink textlinkhover" href=3D"ma= ilto:david=2Ebeard@natgeo=2Ecom">Let us know! And thanks for reading=2E
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