A colony of fungus in soil looks like a setting sun.
An impressive profile of a mouse embryo wall.
Anchor-like structures line the skin of sea cucumbers.
This dyed human hair is tied into a knot.
A great tit bird's down feathers shine like a rainbow under a microscope.
A bat fetus with see-through skin and bones.
Two Maestra butterfly eggs are nestled together on a leaf.
An orchid cuckoo bee shines like metal.
When you look at a daddy long-legs, these are the eyes looking back at you.
A close-up of a credit card's holographic logo.
Two weevils work at passing on their genetic inheritance.
This cartilage-like tissue was composed and colored to look like a Christmas tree.
Sensory hair cells (red) and neurons (green) reveal the structure of a rat cochlea (part of the inner ear).
This part of an embryonic chick brain is colored with the "brainbow" genetic technique.
These are spores of lily pollen.
Fungus grows on a tomato in this image.
Here's the full shot of that tapeworm head.
This Pac-Man-like photo is the third-place winner. It shows a colony of volvox algae bursting open.
This image came in second. It shows the seed-filled head of a groundsel flower.
This image won first place. It shows keratin structures in "immortalized" human skin cells, which are increasingly important tools for medical researchers.
