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Carbon Based Lifeforms - Photosynthesis

They are! It's a floating fern. That's why it needs the hydrophobic properties on the upper part of it's leaves.

Thanks! I used my phone as a black reflective platform and lit it with my table lamp. Possibly using a diffuser. For the camera i used a tripod mounted Nikon, either D3200 or 7200 but it doesn't matter much because the sensor is pretty much the same. Also macro rings.

And finally how these ferns look from below

Here is another more "intimate" angle

Cool stuff! I was only familiar with the macroscopic slimes anyways. So for the non-amoebozoan slimes, what is the convergence you're speaking of? What makes a non-slime slime mold a slime mold?

And don't worry, the bird wasn't harmed. The ornithologists were harmed by it's sharp beak though!

Haha, no you didn't! In Costa Rica you saw toucans which are related to woodpeckers.
Hornbills and toucans looking so similar despite being very distant in their phylogeny and even geography is a great example of convergent evolution.
But no worries that is some bird nerd stuff 🤓

Thanks! Sri Lanka is great for birds. And hoopoe's close relatives, the hornbills can also be seen there.