Eli ([personal profile] eub) wrote2008-09-10 11:42 pm

Yvonne Baskin, Under Ground

Pioneering nematode researcher Nathan Cobb wrote in 1914: "If all the matter in the universe except nematodes were swept away, our world would still be recognizable,... its mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes, and oceans represented by a film of nematodes." [Quoted in Baldwin, Nadler, and Wall, Nematodes: Pervading the Earth and Linking All Life.]

[identity profile] hosterman.livejournal.com 2008-09-13 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
hahahahaha!

Nematodes are fascinating. I first learned about them in my oceanography classes. Makes me want to go back and read my textbooks. Heh.

[identity profile] beaq.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I have some recollection of my mommy telling me this once. Never in such poetical form, however.