The Glass Forest
Tiny green diatoms create the illusion of a fernlike forest as they attach to their marine-invertebrate hosts.via National Geographic
Mario De Stefano of the Second University of Naples, Italy, captured this miniscule "jungle" from the Mediterranean Sea with a scanning electron microscope.
The image earned first place in the photography category of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
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