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This year's winner of the BioScapes digital imaging competition, Igor Siwanowicz, triumphed with a somewhat unusual portrait. To most biologists, it should be clear what anatomical structures are shown here - but what species could this be?
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This beautiful image of the brain of a 5-day-old zebrafish larva, which was created by Albert Pan of Harvard University, has just won 4th place in the 2008 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging competition. (See a larger version here.)
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Cute, but you're still 72 votes behind and they have kittens.
(signed) marc
Make that 51, and remember: it was a mutant kitten.
Bob
What species is it?
The last episode of Planet Earth had some great footage of baby cephalopods doing the whole blinking colourspot thing.
looks a lot like the Argonauta from last week..
That's the most beautiful thing I have seen all week. I don't think that poets have words to express beauty such as this, so you must tell me: is the eye pigmentation in the photo(micrograph) restricted to the expression domain of PAX6?
That is cuter than any human baby I have ever seen.