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Shot with NIKON D80 at an exposure of 0.013 sec (1/80) at a focal length of 90 mm

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Special thanks to Mathie for helping to identify this creature!

My neighbor's daughter came over with a homemade aquarium with tiny tadpoles in it. As she was catching them to hold in her hand, she scooped some of the sediment she had collected at the creek in her hand and set it on the porch. In the sediment there was a cluster of tiny pebbles stuck together. The group was about the size of my thumbnail. After a few minutes the cluster started to move across the ground and I think it startled most of us. We flipped it over to see what was under it and we found a tiny hole where this creature lived. It squirmed and/or crawled out of the hole and acted like it was in need of water.

The size of the creature was extremely tiny. To the naked eye it looked like a baby inch worm. In order to get a better look at what it was, I grabbed my macro gear and struggled to get some shots of it. In order to get these shots I had to use my Tamron 90mm macro, a 36mm Kenko tube and my Phoenix 2X teleconverter. That should give you perspective on just how tiny it is.

Points of interest here are the fact that it has six legs up at the head and the tail seems to have two tiny fingers. What's really interesting is that in some of the shots, there is a hump protruding on his back, but it is not always there. It almost behaves like some sort of lung, allowing it to breathe out of the water.

View the entire set to get all angles. I apologize for the dust but I was in a hurry to get this guy on film.

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