The story for kids
This is euglena. See its little red eye? It uses it to find the light. Euglena is green because inside it has green bits that make food from sunlight, just like plants do. And it wiggles its long little whip to swim.
Facts
- Euglena is like a plant and an animal at the same time.
- It makes food from sunlight with its green parts, and in the dark it can also eat.
- It finds light with its red "eye" and swims with a long whip-like tail.
Numbers
- Size
- ~0.05 mm
- Lives in
- Ponds, puddles
- Eats
- Sunlight, tiny food bits
- Reproduces
- Splits in two