It’s a common myth that you’re not supposed to help a chick hatch out of its shell, sometimes they need a bit of a helping hand or they won’t make it out 🥺. In this case, this little guy was stuck in the shell because of low humidity. The membrane shrinks wraps them in and they’re unable to hatch out, so I stepped in to help 💙 - - #babyanimals #cuteanimals #cutenessoverload | Fat Hen Farms

This is a Difflugia, an amoeba that builds a shell to hide in. In this video, it’s extending its body out of the shell to explore the world. . Difflugia are very common in freshwater and terrestrial habitats such as lakes and soils. There are hundreds of species, each with differently shaped shells. The one you see here has a vase-like shell about half a millimeter long, built mainly from bits of quartz grains collected from its environment. It’s genuinely remarkable that a single-celled organis