This may look like finely crafted sculpture , but you ’re really looking at an laurels - succeed photograph of a biologic sample . The question is : can you work out exactly what it depicts ?
Thewinner of the 2015 Wellcome Image Awards , the icon is a shot of a specimen held at the Royal Veterinary College in London , seize by Michael Frank . Give up ? In fact , it ’s the preserved womb of a New Forest crib , around five months into the maternity . you’re able to make out the developing fetus at the top of the image , its hind legs protruding from the sample .
The sample sits uphold in formalin and was in fact captured through the side of the Perspex container in which it resides . The reflections and kale were clean house up digitally after the image was take . Frank excuse :

“ [ W]e were capable to rejuvenate these special dissection and make them available to a whole Modern interview of students , academics and the populace . I like to think that this digital format is a meet tribute to all the skill of preceding generations of anatomists in creating these resources and the many generations of veterinary who have benefited from studying them . ”
This specimen , along with many more , are on public display at the Lanyon Anatomy Museum of the Royal Veterinary College . [ Wellcome TrustviaNew Scientist ]
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