2018-12-01_Discover

THE CRUX

16 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM

MATCHSTICK MOLLUSK

By day, Håkan Kvarnström is a suit-wearing Stockholm businessman, but his true passion is photographing tiny science. While collecting a water

sample from a commercial fish farm for an algae photo shoot, he noticed a tiny shell. Immediately, he saw the possibilities. After placing it on

a match head for scale, he captured the view at 40x magnification. Kvarnström couldn’t determine the exact species of this tiny spiral, but he

suspects it’s one of the 50,000 in the mollusk phylum.  ERNIE MASTROIANNI; PHOTO BY HÅKAN KVARNSTRÖM

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