Transparent Specimens

Iori Tomita, a Japanese artist, combines art and science by turning the flesh of marine life transparent. And to enhance each creature's invisibility, he injected dye into their bones too.

LINK (Via Gizmodo)

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[FishGeek]

A couple years back I saw a great exhibit of photos of cleared-and-stained amphibians that had all sorts of whacked out deformities; extra sets of limbs, scoliosis/lordosis, missing digits, etc. -- results of various pesticides and such. Think the artist was Brandon Ballengée...

Also, the collection manager at the California Academy of Sciences put together a great book of fish radiographs (x-rays); again, beautiful presentation, and awesome structures across a broad diversity of fish. "Title is X-Ray Ichthyology: The Structure of Fishes." Worth tracking down.