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3rd Place: Waterflea Ralf Wagner, Germany Technique: Darkfield Magnification: 50x Waterflea (Daphnia) playing with volvox.
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View ArticleAsexual Budding in the Oligochaete Worm
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Photo: David J. Dowling Francis Willughby's "Ornithology" (London:1678) Liber Antiquus http://www.liberantiquus.com/0911/willughby.html
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Photo: David J. Dowling Domenico Fontana's "Transportation of the Vatican Obelisk" http://www.liberantiquus.com/0911/blaeu.html Liber Antiquus
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Southwest Canada and Auroras The greenish haze of the Northern Lights lingers over shining cities in Canada in this video from Jan. 25. Passing near the border of British Columbia and Washington state,...
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Art is usually considered a uniquely human ability, but that may not be true. Given the opportunity, animals like chimpanzees and gorillas and elephants produce abstract designs that arguably rise to...
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Central Plains at Night Scattered like hundreds of campfires, the nighttime lights from many Great Plains cities glow in this video from Jan. 30. Starting near the U.S.-Mexico border around Texas,...
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Whale Art? For people to judge animals' artistic aptitude in media developed by humans may be somewhat unfair, and nowhere is this more evident than in whales. Though they're among the most intelligent...
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Mexico to Canada Express Traveling across the U.S. in less than a minute, this video from Jan. 30 starts in northwestern Mexico. From there, it passes over San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas/Fort Worth...
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