He was constantly looking under rocks or breaking apart rotten wood in search of tiny creatures. (edutopia.org)
Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home. (bloody-disgusting.com)
He writes with a sense of awe about everything from tiny creatures such as the bdelloid rotifers (a large one is 2 mm long)- a species that «hasn't had sex for several million years» and yet survives — to the mammals we're familiar with such as lions, elephants and whales. (bookbrowse.com)