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Northern krill (2021)

September 7, 2023November 12, 2021 by admin

Meganyctiphanes norvegica, the northern krill, folded from a 2 m square made by cutting down furniture padding. Designed for “Changing Climate, Changing Stories” at the Hunterian Museum.

timelapse: folding Meganyctiphanes
Northern krill and its friends (to scale)
Categories Experiments Tags krill, origami, plankton, timelapse, zooplankton
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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the UK Natural Environment Research Council for their support through the Changing Arctic Ocean programme and the Mapping Ocean Change through Art project.

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