Monsters in Our Midst. ‘Mazing Magnified Images

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You might be mistaken for thinking that photo looks like the talons of an eagle, but it ain’t. It’s a Madagascan Eutetramorium mocquerysi. More precisely it’s the base of its leg. Hard to believe that leg belongs to a lil’ ant, albeit photographed at a magnification of 400 times using a scanning electron microscope and stitched together from 400 photos.

The photography is part of work that is being undertaken by the NanoGigaPan project, who are ‚Äúworking to take high resolution images of very small things.‚Äù See some more images below and check out the links to their other exhibits….

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