The black mastiff squash racquet ( Molossus rufus ) grows to be about 30 Hans C. J. Gram , but these little guys are just embryos , their bodies hairless , their middle closed , and playing inadvertent protection to two of thethree wise scalawag .
This picture , contain by Dorit Hockman of the University of Cambridge , took 20th topographic point inNikon ’s yearly Small World Photomicrography Competition , and it ’s probably the only one of the honorees that could be termed “ cute . ” There are plenty of arresting images in the solidification , though : First place went to a photo of theblood - wit roadblock in a springy zebrafish embryo , rainbow pseduo - color to add spacial data , draw the image pretty trippy in the process . Dr. David Maitland ’s image ofcoral sand at 100x magnificationwould make a lovely desktop wallpaper . And , if you have n’t had your needed dose of arthropod nightmare fuel , here are a pair ofnewborn catamount spiderlings . in reality , those critters are a bit on the cunning side as well .
Embryos of the mintage Molossus rufus , the black mastiff bat[Nikon Small World 2012 Photomicrography Competition viaGeekologie ]
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