20+ Unusual and Astounding Living Lives (you Never Seen Before)
In every part of the surrounding, in which humans dwell in, no matter in water, land, air, or elsewhere, there reign tiny yet complex lives. The in depths study of these living organisms bring human a face to face consequence with an astounding miracle of the creation of God. The astounding part of the living organisms have led us some understanding of the awe-inspiring structure of every life from as small as 0.0000001 to over 0.1. These photomicrographs unveiled the miracle and astounding lives as illustrated below.
This microscope image was captured by Spike Walker. It shows a trachea of the silkworm which carries oxygen from the openings within the surface of its body or spiracles. The tracheal tubes are divided into a branch of Tracheoles in order to dispatch oxygen efficiently to the required tissues of this insect.
(Source: Klaus Bolte, Natural Resources Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.)
This photo shows a parasitoid wasp (Amisega floridensis) (90x). The parasitoid wasp is considered as beneficial to plants as it helps to control the populations of agricultural pests.
(Source: Annie Cavanagh and Dave McCarthy, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK.)
This photo shows a carpet of red blood cells (also called erythrocytes) which clearly demonstrated their slightly indented, flattened and biconcave disc shape, in which the shape enlarges the surface area for the efficiency of the absorption and release of oxygen and carbon dioxide. This in turns enables the cells to move flexibly via the tinniest blood capillaries. These iron-rich protein hemoglobin cells are mainly manufactured in the bone marrow (soft tissue inside the bones), particularly in the bones that make up the spine, pelvis, skull, sternum (breastbone) and ribs of the vertebrates. Their lifespan is only 4 months and each day our body produces new blood red cells to replace those that are dead or lost from our body.
(Source: Dr. Jeffery Bowen, Bridgewater State College Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA.)
This photo shows a dragonfly (Kaleidofly of a Halloween Pennant) (1x). It looks like a delicate masterpiece of the mosaic.
(Source: Steven Valley, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Plant Division Salem, Oregon, USA.)
This photo shows the eggs of a spider (Mimetidae sp.) with a sheath of silk (30x). After laying the eggs, the spider will spun silk through spinnerets located on its posterior part of the abdomen to protect its eggs. At this stage, as you could see from the photo, its silk looks like a fried egg.
(Source: Christian Gautier, BIOS/PHONE Photo Agency Avignon, France.)
This photo shows the cross-section of the cedar leaves (Cedrus atlantica)(200x).
This image was captured by Shao Jin Ong. This photo shows the bacterial of meningitis. It is an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. The yellow dots you see in this photo are Neisseria meningitides bacteria which dwell in the human airway cells. They can also find living around the nose and throat of us without causing disease or symptom. This viral and bacterial infection is scary that it can lead to a severe case of brain damage, learning disability, or hearing loss. Furthermore, if these meningitis-causing bacteria break through and go into the blood stream, they can cause potentially septicaemia (a life-threatening infection caused by bacteria as well as a serious infection that usually spreads from some other part of the body to the blood, where the bacteria multiply) and fatal meningitis.
(Source: Dr. Stephen Lowry, University of Ulster Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK.)
This photo shows a soft-bodied animal or a mollusk (Coiled radula of Patella vulgaris) (20x). This animal is mainly found in marine environments, with many of its species discovering in the shallow sub-tidal and on the continental shelf. They are generally characterized by a shell-secreting organ, the mantle, and a radula, a food-rasping organ located in the forward area of their mouth.
(Source: Dr. Robert Markus, Institute of Genetics Biological Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szeged, Hungary.)
This photo shows the opening stamen of purple jasmine flower (mirabilis jalapa) (125x).
(source: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USA.)
This photo shows the marine diatoms attached to red seaweed plants (polysiphonia) (100x).
(Source: James Sharpe, Medical Research Council's Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh.)
This photo shows the mouse embryo which has been stained to show parts of its heart in red, the floor of the spinal cord and other tissue in blue, parts of the nervous system in green, while the unstained tissues appear in grey color. With the advance technology of Optical Projection Tomography (OPT), scientists could study the internal structure of stained whole embryos and tinier pieces of tissue without even need for their cutting sections as this new technique can reveal different elements of the staining pattern in details.
