Light micrograph of elastic cartilage of the ear. This type of cartilage is made from a protein called elastin and is formed from a network of elastic...

Light micrograph of elastic cartilage of the ear. This is a type of cartilage (connective tissue) that is present in the outer ear. It contains a network...

An oocyte in a mature follicle. During the menstral cycle in females the ovary produces oocytes, which develop in follicles. As the follicle matures...

Brightfield micrograph of a living diatom (Mediopyxis helysia) showing the cell nuclei and golden chloroplasts. There is a bacteria colony in mucilage...

Brightfield image of stink bug eggs. Stink bugs are agricultural pests that exist throughout the world and emit a characteristic foul-smelling odor...

Tentacle of Portuguese Man o' War, Physalia physalis imaged with a stereomicroscope at 30x. Notorious for its painful, powerful sting, the Portuguese...

Projection a series of confocal images of the eye of a commmon blue damselfly. This projection shows the regular, crystal-like architecture of the eye...

Primordium (bud) of the weedy flower Tribulus sp. at its final stages of development. More than 100 z-stacks were combined to produce thefinal image...

Brightfield image of protozoan Elphidium crispum found growing on the Dorset coast of England. Honorable Mention, 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging...

Brightfield image of the epidermis of Sedum sp. (stonecrop), a genus of flowering plants with succulent leaves. The image was taken at 125X. Honorable...