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2013

May 21: Eccrine hidrocystoma, an adenoma of the sweat glands
May 20: Aptostichus barackobamai, the spider named for Barack Obama
May 19: The ground beetle Cymindis platicollis.
May 18: A saltwater crocodile equipped with a satellite transmitter for migration tracking.
May 17: Flowers of Silene species
May 16: Tiered rice paddies in the Baucau district, East Timor.
May 15: Podarcis pityusensis, the Ibiza wall lizard scavenging fish scraps
May 14: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis controls behavior of its host ants
May 13: human cortical development between 26 and 39 week gestational age
May 12: The snail Tamayoa decolorata.
May 11: A pair of Herennia multipuncta spiders.
May 10: events in alpha-synuclein toxicity
May 9: Pelochelys cantorii from Luzon in the Philippines
May 8: A male Craspedisia spatulata spider.
May 7: the greater noctule bat Nyctalus lasiopterus
May 6: floodplain around Lake Ira Lalaro in East Timor
May 5: love dart of the snail Bradybaena similaris
May 4: axon guidance in Drosophila
May 3: Copa kei male from Cwebe Nature Reserve
May 2: dispersal of seeds by the airflow of vehicles
May 1: holotype of Homo cepranensis
April 30: Granular corneal dystrophy, a condition caused by a genetic disorder
April 29: The microbiologist and Nobel laurate Hamilton Othanel Smith.
April 28: eggs of Pomacea haustrum
April 27: size of four Geosaurini present during the Kimmeridgian
April 26: optical flow experienced by a rotating observer
April 25: The soft coral Briareum violacea.
April 24: PET scan of a patient with nasopharyngeal cancer
April 23: lifecycle of Haliclystus antarcticus
April 22: predicted habitat suitability for the Illacme plenipes millipede.
April 21: The sea snail Terebra taurina.
April 20: a model for the early olfaction system
April 19: The blenny Helcogramma rhinoceros.
April 18: skeleton of the prehistoric Nimbadon lavarackorum
April 17: Cucujus haematodes habitus.
April 16: The polychaete Notopygos ornata.
April 15: Aquaporin Z, a protein
April 14: An Erebia sudetica butterfly.
April 13: An ass's ear abalone, Haliotis asinina.
April 12: calling song of Magicicada cassini
April 11: Bornella stellifer, a nudibranch in family Bornellidae
April 10: A Bradypodion gutturale chameleon.
April 9: The beetle Notiophilus aquaticus.
April 8: the fern Blechnum and tree Phylica on Gough Island
April 7: Shrimp Alpheus with parasite Cryptoniscidae attached
April 6: CT scan of lung showing Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency
April 5: schematic for a brain-computer interface
April 4: Enyalioides azulae, a member of the lizard family Hoplocercidae.
April 3: The blenny Helcogramma inclinata.
April 2: A mandible of the fossil giraffe Mitilanotherium inexpectatum.
April 1: A male Aptostichus angelinajolieae spider.
March 31: Sir Edwin Southern, inventor of the Southern blot.
March 30: The life cycle of the parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus, which causes river blindness.
March 29: Snoring under severe sleep apnea
March 28:T Cell differentiation
March 27: increasing reelin changes the morphology of migrating neurons
March 26: cone of female Ephedra californica
March 25: Life restoration of Iguanacolossus fortis.
March 24: Lily Shoals elimia
March 23: The beetle Phrypeus rickseckeri.
March 22: Pieter Bleeker (b. 1819), Dutch ichthyologist
March 21: Images of love darts made by scanning electron microscopy
March 20: The synaptonemal complex underlying bivalent formation during meiosis.
March 19: The song of the owl Otus jolandae
March 18: The moth Panthea acronyctoides.
March 17: Bone scintigraphy of a patient with psoriatic arthritis in the left elbow.
March 16: The Termitotrox cupido holotype.
March 15: Cercopithecus lomamiensis.
March 14: Phylogenetic tree for Heterobranchia
March 13: Endocarditis ultrasound
March 12: Malayatelura rubbing an ant worker
March 11: The fern Dryopteris macropholis.
March 10: Escherichia coli life cycle.
March 9: A Pantopsalis listeri harvestman.
March 8: Single beating cell at day 5 after VCAM-1 sorting
March 7: The result of a tonsillectomy.
March 6: A Prostylotermes termite.
March 5: Fruitbodies of Boletopsis nothofagi
March 4: Astronaut Charles Duke with a hammer on the moon
March 3: A Soay sheep.
March 2: In progeria patients, the cell nucleus has dramatically aberrant morphology (bottom, right) rather than the uniform shape typically found in healthy individuals (top, right).
March 1: The snail Opisthostoma everettii.
February 28: Adult Gelis apterus female in lateral view.
February 27: Affective psychosis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and brain perfusion abnormalities
February 26: Rolling of water droplets on quartz surface prepared using PMMA
February 25: The Sierra Madre on the Philippine island of Luzon.
February 24: The bivalve Xylophaga dorsalis.
February 23: The sea slug Aplysia punctata.
February 22: Rutilus x Alburnus - a natural hybrid of Rutilus rutilus and Alburnus alburnus.
February 21: Incidence of cholangiocarcinoma and Opisthorchis viverrini in Thailand from 1990–2001.
February 20: A Colias myrmidone butterfly.
February 19: The spider Selenops petrunkevitchi.
February 18: Frustules of several diatoms.
February 17: A patient's hands with multiple xanthomas.
February 16: Leukemia cells.
February 15: The sea urchin Asterechinus elegans.
February 14: The dinosaur Sinocalliopteryx gigas feeding on the bird Confuciusornis.
February 13: A juvenile Zodarion styliferum spider.
February 12: Monomeric and dimeric structures of human beta-defensin HBD-2.
February 11: The longhorn beetle Leptostylopsis annulipes.
February 10: Female cone of Ephedra intermedia.
February 9: Nobel laureate John Sulston.
February 8: Detail of a female Apocephalus borealis fly with its ovipositor.
February 7: The water snail Terebralia palustris.
February 6: The ground beetle Cychrus tuberculatus.
February 5: A newborn rhesus macaque imitates tongue protrusion.
February 4: A Plasmodium sporozoite transversing the midgut of an Anopheles stephensi mosquito.
February 3: A Tasmanian devil with Devil facial tumour disease.
February 2: Human embryonic stem cells and neurons derived from them.
February 1: Comparison of the huge claws of the extinct eagle Harpagornis moorei with those of its close relative Hieraaetus morphnoides.
January 31: Lectotypes of pleurocerids sympatric with Leptoxis compacta
January 30: A Common Myna.
January 29: A series of primate skulls, with brain size indicated.
January 28: Australian rock art depicting long-beaked echidnas.
January 27: Mating position of Latrodectus bishopi spiders (female in white, male in black).
January 26: The frog Boophis williamsi.
January 25: A digestive tubule cell of the sea slug Elysia clarki with chloroplasts (C) and nucleus (N). Scale bar: 3 µm.
January 24: Artistic reconstruction of Wintonotitan.
January 23: Song of the 17-year cicada Magicicada septendecula.
January 22: The ground beetle Broscus cephalotes.
January 21: The gastrotrich Thaumastoderma ramuliferum. Scale bar: 20 µm.
January 20: The lizard Kentropyx calcarata.
January 19: A human karyogram with a ring chromosome.
January 18: Atelopus franciscus territorial call
January 17: The butterfly Aricoris propitia attended by the fire ant Solenopsis saevissima.
January 16: zebra finch song
January 15: Oxydromus pugettensis, a bristle worm.
January 14: A Lamellibrachia luymesi tube worm.
January 13: The ground beetle Calosoma sycophanta.
January 12: Motion tracking of two pianists' fingers playing the same piece (slow motion, no sound).
January 11: Panoramic view of the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.
January 10: Negative stain electron micrograph of a gamma phage. Used on 130 Wikipedias.
January 9: Glial distribution of Cu/Zn SOD immunoreactivity in intact immature brain
January 8: A congenital melanocytic nevus.
January 7: X-ray video of a female American alligator while breathing.
January 6: Trachemys adiutrix turtles in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil.
January 5: Mourning Dove vocalizations.
January 4: A bumblebee worker with a transponder attached to its back, visiting a rapeseed flower.
January 3: Suggested "Out of Africa" migratory routes according to mitochondrial DNA.
January 2: Craig Venter.
January 1: Two specimens of the flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi about to engage in penis fencing.

2012

December 31: Ocular fundus aspect of retinoblastoma
December 30: spawning Pocillopora meandrina
December 29: A silvery mole rat.
December 28: Achelousaurus nasal openings
December 27: Example of a Scan for quantitative trait loci on a single chromosome
December 26: A Galápagos tortoise.
December 25: Fruiting bodies of the slime bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.
December 24: Electron microscopy of Prochlorococcus
December 23: Kent distribution of three point sets representing bond angle relations in a protein backbone.
December 22: The tiger beetle Omus dejeanii.
December 21: expression of FABP7 in mouse brains
December 20: Mycosphaerella graminicola chromosomes
December 19: Diplodocoidea cladogram
December 18: Drawing of Rhinopithecus strykeri
December 17: Rostral migratory stream of a mouse
December 16: Cataglyphis fortis experiencing head-wind on a slippery substrate
December 15: Clytus arietes
December 14:Atelopus franciscus male territorial call
December 13: The mushroom Boletopsis nothofagi.
December 12: Alec Jeffreys
December 11: The modern Emu (centre) and extinct King Island Emu (right) with human outline shown approximately to scale.
December 10: Blenniella gibbifrons jumping
December 9: Ebolavirus particles
December 8: Ankylosaurus tail terminology
December 7: Structural organization of the heart of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae
December 6: A Magicicada chorus.
December 5: Adélie Penguins.
December 4: Anodonthyla (frog) feet
December 3: The animal with the longest valid scientific name: the soldier fly Parastratiosphecomyia sphecomyioides.
December 2: Burrunan Dolphin jumping
December 1: Larvae of Culex mosquitoes.
November 30: A Magicicada cassini female laying its eggs.
November 29: A hydrophilic termite (Schedorhinotermes sp.) attached to the surface of a wetted citrus leaf
November 28: A range of putative disease-causing mechanisms for the case of the disease progeria
November 27: A large male Bolitotherus cornutus undergoing a grip strength trial.
November 26: A female Euglossa hyacinthina working on the construction of her nest envelope.
November 25: Reconstruction of a Nimbadon lavarackorum mother with a juvenile.
November 24: SEM image of the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum in its active state.
November 23: The brown lacewing Micromus variegatus.
November 22: Carpodacus mexicanus (finch) vocalizations
November 21: The fish Alticus arnoldorum performing a jump (slow motion).
November 20: Larsenianthus arunachalensis, a member of the ginger family.
November 19: An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross.
November 18: A Xenopus laevis female with egg batch and Xenopus tropicalis male.
November 17: Acoustic display of the hummingbird Archilochus alexandri.
November 16: Thyrinteina caterpillar parasitized by Glyptapanteles pupae defends against Supputius cincticeps
November 15: Anodonthyla theoi, dorsolateral and ventral views
November 14: A female Illacme plenipes with 662 legs.
November 13: Aerosteon riocoloradensis
November 12: maxilla from Fruitadens
November 11: The Garden centipede Scutigerella immaculata.
November 10: A female tarantula Acanthoscurria gomesiana.
November 9: drawing of female of Glomeris marginata
November 8: Centropyge bicolor feeding on Palaemonetes
November 7: Archerfish shooting at prey
November 6: The butterfly Erebia calcaria.
November 5: gastrulation in cybrid embryos
November 4: The sea slug Spurilla major.
November 3: Major metabolic interactions betwen astrocytes and neurons.
November 2: Venogram showing cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in a patient with Behçet's disease
November 1: MRI scans of a microcephalic patient (right) and a healthy control (left).
October 31: The Insular cortex (Japanese version).
October 30: The Neanderthal skull La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1.
October 29: A Varanus timorensis from Loré, Lautém District, East Timor.
October 28: Skeletal reconstruction (top) and inferred body outline (bottom) of the Cretaceous lizard Platecarpus.
October 27: map of European genetic structure based on single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis
October 26: Comparison of Nautilus capture rates with trapping depth
October 25: A male Labeotropheus fuelleborni from Lake Malawi.
October 24: Agdistis linnaei
October 23: Interneuron-radial glial interactions in the developing cerebral cortex.
October 22: drip irrigation on loamy soil
October 21: Lectotype of Elimia cahawbensis.
October 20: A Lamprolepis smaragdina skink.
October 19: Nylanderia pubens, the crazy Rasberry ant
October 18: Basal body of T3SS needle complex. The black line indicates 10 nanometers.
October 17: 3D reconstruction of the general anatomy of the small marine slug Pseudunela cornuta, based on histological sections.
October 16: map of where to find Amphicyclotulus in Dominica
October 15: comparison of furcula of (A) a dinosaur and (B) a goose
October 14: The wonder gecko Teratoscincus scincus.
October 13: A Morgan horse with silver rather than black pigments, due to the silver dapple gene.
October 12: booms by Cercopithecus hamlyni
October 11: Ipsa childreni, the charismatic cowrie
October 10: Combat between two forked fungus beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus) males.
October 9: A timelapse video of how muscles, skin, scales and quills are added to a skull cast of Heterodontosaurus tucki
October 8: Life restorations of Darwinius masillae
October 7: Melanargia arge.
October 6: Mary F. Lyon, discoverer of X-chromosome inactivation.
October 5: Drawing of the right valve external view of Pisidium moitessierianum
October 4: growth depictions for Archaeopteryx
October 3: MRI scan of an osteochondroma.
October 2: Inside krill one can see (A) pregnancy (B) phytoplankton
October 1: A Somali wild ass, Equus africanus somaliensis.
September 30: An Oncomelania hupensis hupensis snail.
September 29: A Taiwanophodes minor beetle. Scale: 1mm.
September 28: A Nerodia fasciata snake attacking a parvalbumin-coated lure.
September 27: Aphanius mesopotamicus
September 26: Diversity of ancestral rices
September 25: Maize cob from the Ocampo Caves in Mexico dated to 3,890 years ago.
September 24: Adult female and fetal Maiacetus.
September 22: A fiber-optic array for detection of breast cancer by way of Diffuse Optical Tomography.
September 21: Bradypodion atromontanum
September 20: Muscle biopsy from a girl with X-linked myotubular myopathy
September 19: Miamira magnifica
September 18: Carabus rumelicus
September 17: Gorilla tool use
September 16: New Jersey amber containing specimens of Plumalexius rasnitsyni
September 15: Buforaniidae grasshoppers from the Australian National Insect Collection.
September 14: Tiger phylogenetic relationships.
September 13: Vocalizations of the newly described monkey species Cercopithecus lomamiensis, known to science since yesterday.
September 12: The rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus
September 11: A Volucella bombylans hoverfly.
September 10: Haliclystus antarcticus in the field
September 9: A Conepatus semistriatus skunk.
September 8: Map of the Cahaba River and some of its tributaries.
September 7: Cross-section through the tail of Carnotaurus sastrei
September 6: Common anatomical types of esophageal atresia
September 5: Metarhizium anisopliae fungus, capable of killing more than 200 insect species including the pictured cockroach
September 4: The diversity and containment of coral reef systems make them good sites for testing niche and neutral theories in theoretical ecology
September 3: Genome data from the opossum Monodelphis domestica aids understanding of the evolution of the mammalian immune system.
September 2: Schematic illustration of differences in neuronal specification and migration patterns between the mammalian and avian pallium
September 1: Thuridilla carlsoni. Locality: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. The length of the slug is about 2 cm.
August 31: The snake Lycodryas cococola from Comoros.
August 30: X-ray of the pelvis of a patient with osteopetrosis.
August 29: Larsenianthus careyanus.
August 28: Euhadra quaesita from Sendai
August 27: Gene silcencing in Genetically modified plants (here: Petunia).
August 26: Pit eye in Patella.
August 25: Spinophorosaurus nigerensis holotype skeleton in situ during excavation in the region of Aderbissinat, Niger
August 24: The type specimen of Brunfelsia plowmaniana.
August 23: ECG from a patient with confirmed Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
August 22:Daphnia magna, the water flea
August 21: Chalk composed of kaolinite with traces of quartz ingested (suckled) by a patient with pica. Scale in centimeters.
August 20: Schematic showing how ribozymes bind and cleave mRNA to prevent it from functioning.
August 19: Plant volatiles released by corn plants may help the caterpillar Mythimna separata avoid predators.
August 18: A female Trogloraptor marchingtoni spider, whose species, genus and family were named after citizen scientist Neil Marchington.
August 17: 5 different scintigrams taken from thyroids with different syndromes
August 16: United States-based population studies biologist, Paul R. Ehrlich
August 15: Zebras at the Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya.
August 14: A new species of green lacewing discovered in Malaysia through a citizen scientist, an online image database, and cybertaxonomy
August 13: Schematic diagram of how to decompose systems into overlapping complexes according to Tononi's Integrated Information Theory.
August 12: Mountainous landscape at Fenshuiling, Jinping County, Yunnan Province, China.
August 11: Lectotype of the snail Elimia ampla (MCZ 161735).
August 10: Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions.
August 9: Map of the Messel pit.
August 8: Life restoration of Diamantinasaurus.
August 7: Ovotestis of Biomphalaria glabrata.
August 6: Deletion of the short arm of the chromosome 4 in a patient with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
August 5: Illustration of part of a liver lobule.
August 4: An African Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus moquini.
August 3: Coronal section containing the chronically imaged pyramidal neuron “dow” does not stain for GABA.
August 2: The mycobacteriophage Bxb1 uses a novel enzyme to remove itself from its bacterial host's genome before launching an infection.
August 1: Chloroplast ribosome.
July 31: Forest elephants in the Mbeli River, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Congo.
July 30: A mangrove finch, the rarest of Darwin's finches.
July 29: A phylogeographic image of poison frogs' lineages from South America.
July 28: Electron micrograph showing exaggerated filopodia with club-like shape induced by formin mDia2 in cultured cells.
July 27: Over time, selective breeding modifies teosinte's few fruitcases (left) into modern corn's rows of exposed kernels (right).
July 26: Drusilla canaliculata, a rove beetle.
July 25: Lateral radiograph of the knee demonstrating ossification in the peritendinous tissues in a patient with osteochondroma.
July 24: Methylococcus capsulatus cultured in the presence of a high concentration of copper.
July 23: Schematic Representation of the Key Structural Features of SIV and HIV-1 Entry into T Cells.
July 22: Bruce Alberts, co-author of Molecular Biology of the Cell (textbook).
July 21: Biston betularia caterpillars on birch (left) and willow (right).
July 20: A territorial dispute between two male Astatotilapia burtoni.
July 19: Cast of the lower jaws of the crocodyliform Laganosuchus thaumastos. Scale bar equals 20 cm.
July 18: Selenops kalinago.
July 17: Reconstructed feeding posture of an azhdarchid with sagittally aligned limbs.
July 16: Ribbon diagram of human carbonyl reductase 1 in complex with NADPH.
July 15: Forest fruits from Barro Colorado Island.
July 14: Chocolate-backed kingfisher (Halcyon badia).
July 13: Biological specimen of substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease.
July 12: Prehistoric human migration from the Middle East to Neolithic Europe.
July 11: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution's submersible Johnson SeaLink.
July 10: Phylogenetic tree of life.
July 9: SEM image of trochophore of Haliotis asinina 9 hours post fertilisation.
July 8: Sloggett's Rat.
July 7: Artistic representation of Australovenator wintonensis.
July 6: Emergency military hospital during Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, United States.
July 5: The inner side of the operculum of Marstonia comalensis. Scale bar: 200 μm.
July 4: The Black crab Gecarcinus ruricola.
July 3: RNAi is a naturally occurring process in which small RNA molecules activate a cellular process that results in the destruction of a specific mRNA.
July 2: Cod in a high arctic lake in Canada. Due to overfishing and other changes Atlantic cod grow to half this size.
July 1: Heavy spotting on corn kernels reveals the activity of the Mutator system
June 30: Map showing Japanese archipelago, Sea of Japan and surrounding part of continental East Asia in Middle Pliocene to Late Pliocene.
June 29: Kidney biopsy (light microscopy) in which the purple stain is on the podocytes.
June 28: phenotypes of wild-type (top) and PAX6 ortholog mutations (bottom) in human, mouse, zebrafish, and fly.
June 27: Scanning electron micrographs showing morphological variation of bdelloid rotifers and their jaws.
June 26: This model of Phineas Gage's skull illustrates the approximate path of the tamping iron that produced his famous injury.
June 25: An African Black Oystercatcher chick with the numbered colour rings that are used to follow its survival and migratory movements over several years.
June 24: A female Selenops lindborgi spider with its egg sac.
June 23: Cross-Linked DNA Extracted from 4,000-Year-Old Liver of an Ancient Egyptian priest called Nekht-Ankh.
June 22: A T2-weighted sagittal MRI scan, from a patient with Arnold–Chiari malformation symptomatology, demonstrating tonsillar herniation.
June 21: Selection for social signalling drives the evolution of chameleon colour change.
June 20: This figure depicts one view of the history of human evolution based on fossil data.
June 19: Access2Research founders Heather Joseph, John Wilbanks, Michael W. Carroll and Mike Rossner after meeting at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
June 18: In an effort to reduce corn stem-borer infestations, corporate and public researchers partner to develop local genetically modified maize varieties suitable for Kenya.
June 17: A fly falling into water and escaping.
June 16: Forest of synthetic pyramidal dendrites grown using Cajal's laws of neuronal branching.
June 15: Biologist Seymour Benzer with a model of Drosophila melanogaster.
June 14: An assassin bug Triatoma dimidiata, potential vector of Chagas disease.
June 13: Sampling sites of the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition.
June 12: A 12 million-year old upper jaw of the Sthenictis campestris, a member of the weasel family.
June 11: The Dorsal habitus of Oxypoda stanleyi, a rove beetle from Stanley Park. Scale bar: 1 mm.
June 10: A Cretaceous snake Sanajeh indicus feeding on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs.
June 9: A frog with chytridiomycosis.
June 8: Modified Gömöri trichrome stain showing several ragged red fibers in MELAS syndrome.
June 7: A Hemidactylus platyurus gecko displaying rapid inversion.
June 6: The butterfly Coenonympha oedippus.
June 5: Blue Whale calls in the presence of mid-frequency active sonar.
June 4: The freshwater gastropod Acochlidium fijiiensis.
June 3: The sea slug Aeolidiella stephanieae.
June 2: The Subventricular zone of a human brain.
June 1: Silhouette of Australovenator wintonensis showing the material of the holotype. Scale bar: probably 1m.
May 31: A female Selenops geraldinae Corronca eating a fly and guarding her egg sac on a bromeliad, Gaspar Grande Island, Trinidad and Tobago.
May 30: A metastasized Ewing's sarcoma.
May 29: Lateral X-ray image of a human knee, with fragmentation of the tibial tubercle.
May 28: The nomadic jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica.
May 27: The leaf miner Cameraria ohridella.
May 26: The tick Ixodes scapularis, a vector for Lyme disease.
May 25: A video on a petition for open-access mandates.
May 24: The fairyfly Myanmymar aresconoides in amber from Myanmar.
May 23: X-ray of a paratype of the smallest known vertebrate, the frog Paedophryne amauensis.
May 22: White matter connections illustrated with MRI tractography,.
May 21: A human brain as compared to that of a chimpanzee. Scale bar: 1 cm.
May 20: The scorpion Mesobuthus longichelus.
May 19: The freshwater snail Bulinus wrighti, an intermediate host of Schistosoma haematobium.
May 18: Transmission Electron Microscopy of the Synechococcus Phage S-PM2.
May 17: Patients waiting in a hospital in Apac. Many children here suffer from malaria.
May 16: A male Enyalioides rubrigularis lizard.
May 15: A Black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya).
May 14: ECG of a patient with Fabry's disease.
April 13: Life restoration of a Hippodraco dinosaur.
April 12: The agamid lizard Draco timorensis.
April 11: A coral reef community.
April 10: The sea slug Cyerce nigricans feeding on Chlorodesmis fastigiata.
April 9: Bone scintigraphy of a patient with colorectal cancer before and after chemotherapy.
April 8: Ice age fauna of what is today's Northern Spain.
April 7: The shell of the snail Opisthostoma goniostoma from Borneo.
April 6: The shorebird Calidris canutus.
April 5: The moth Catocala johnsoniana.
April 4: Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr.
May 3: The anthelmintic effect of papain on the nematode Heligmosomoides bakeri.
May 2: The Mlabri people in Thailand are hunter-gatherers whose ancestors practiced agriculture.
May 1: Capuchin monkeys sharing food.
April 30: The bird-of-paradise Paradisaea raggiana.
April 29: Reconstruction of Anatosuchus minor.
April 28: The chameleon Bradypodion damaranum.
April 27: CT scan of a craniopharyngioma.
April 26: Salmonella enterica ssp. enterica ser. Typhi murium.
April 25: Geographic distribution of emu taxa and historic shoreline reconstructions around Tasmania.
April 24: The shell Bulgarica denticulata.
April 23: The remipede Speleonectes tanumekes.
April 22: Melitaea cinxia.
April 21: Flabellina affinis feeding on Eudendrium racemosum.
April 20: The wasp Leptofoenus pittfieldae in Dominican amber.
April 19: Mating in the sea slug Elysia timida.
April 18: Computed tomography of a patient with Cherubism, showing bone malformation in both the mandible and the maxilla.
April 17: Life restoration of Aegisuchus witmeri.
April 16: The butterfly Coenonympha hero.
April 15: Map of localities from which Paedophryne frogs have been reported.
April 14: Congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy.
April 13: Gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster. Scale bar: 100 μm.
April 12: Sociobiologist and entomologist Edward O. Wilson.
April 11: Forest on the island of Nosy Hara in Northern Madagascar.
April 10: Dilophosaurus wetherilli in a bird-like resting pose.
April 9: HE staining of chicken optic tectum with the layered subventricular zone. Scale bar 200 μm. .
April 8: The frog Paedophryne dekot, one of the smallest species of vertebrates.
April 7: Rhinophores in the slug Aplysia californica.
April 6: A Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer).
April 5: Tissue necrosis following a bite from Bothrops asper.
April 4: Autoradiography of a saggital slice from an embryonal rat brain. Scale bar: 2mm.
April 3: A male Enyalioides rubrigularis lizard. .
April 2: The diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum.
March 31: Head of the tentacled snake Erpeton tentaculatus under the scanning electron microscope.
March 30: Section through the olfactory bulb of a 16 days old rat brain.
March 29: A scanning electron micrograph of a single coccolithophore cell of Emiliania huxleyi.
March 28: Spodoptera exigua larva feeding on Nicotiana attenuata.
March 27: The single-celled ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, whose genome was published in 2006. .
March 26: The butterfly Boloria improba in its natural environment.
March 25: X-ray of a girl's wrist, with enchondromas in the radius.
March 24: Aerial view of the Gobero archaeological site in Niger.
March 23: The pauropod Pauropus huxleyi.
March 22: A T. rex trotting along beside a T. rex-sized chicken. Not just biomechanically impossible.
March 21: The water flea Daphnia pulex.
March 20: Artistic representation of a diatom of the genus Navicula.
March 19: A clouded cornea in a patient with Fabry disease.
March 18: Range Expansion of Cro-Magnon into Europe from the Near East until about 32,500 years before present.
March 17: Forest on Barro Colorado Island in Lake Gatún, the heart of the Panama Canal.
March 16: MRI scans of patients lacking a corpus callosum.
March 15: E. coli fimbriae.
March 14: A male Asian house gecko Hemidactylus platyurus from East Timor.
March 13: A gorilla using a branch of a tree as a walking stick.
March 12: Map of the periglacial region in Japan at the height of the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago.
March 11: A mouse fibroblast nucleus in which DNA is stained blue. The distinct chromosome territories of chromosome 2 (red) and chromosome 9 (green) are stained with fluorescent in situ hybridization.
March 10: The Golden Brain: the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
March 9: A mucous cell bordering on the stomach lumen secretes mucus (pink stain).
March 8: A group of Macaca arctoides monkeys.
March 7: The viper Cerastes gasperettii with horns.
March 6: Forest in the Western Ghat, a biodiversity hotspot.
March 5: Albatrosses associating with a killer whale. Image taken by an albatros-borne camera.
March 4: MRI scan of a chordoma.
March 3: Yeast growing in chemostats.
March 2: Amelogenesis imperfecta.
March 1: Self-assembly of DNA into nanostructures.
February 29: Adult male Hapalomys delacouri rat.
Februrary 28: Fluorescence microscopy of wound healing in Drosophila.
February 27: A female Brookesia desperata with two freshly laid eggs.
February 26: Two-photon excitation microscopy of mouse intestine.
February 25: The fundus of a patient with retinitis pigmentosa.
February 24: The holotype adult skull of Pachycephalosaurus reinheimeri..
February 23: A painting of pyramidal neurons in the subiculum and CA1.
February 22: Coronal section of a human brain with cortical edema.
February 21: A love dart of the snail Monachoides vicinus.
February 20: A leaf-cutter ant.
February 19: Nuclei in the worm C. elegans.
February 18: The parasitic wasp Neoneurus vesculus ovipositing in workers of the ant Formica cunicularia.
February 17: The geodesic architecture of viral capsids. .
February 16: Song-learning pathways in birds..
February 15: A juvenile Brookesia micra standing on the head of a match.
February 14: A deep-sea community living nearby a hydrothermal vent. Has annotations.
February 13: Transgenic mice expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein.
February 12: Zebra finches.
February 11: A Golay cell.
February 10: Identical twins may look different.
February 9: Northwestern Yunnan, China.
February 8: Embryo and placenta.
February 7: The rove beetle Dalotia coriaria.
February 6: Pepper mild mottle virus in action.
February 5: The louse Fahrenholzia pinnata.
February 4: The small dinosaur Araripesuchus wegeneri.
February 3: Wolbachia inside a fruitfly cell.
February 2: Gough Island, one of the most remote places on Earth.
February 1: The blood-feeding sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis, transmitter of Leishmaniasis
January 31: Francis Crick in his office.
January 30: The Eungella torrent frog Taudactylus eungellensis is critically endangered.
January 29: Gyps bengalensis, the oriental whitebacked vulture, is critically endangered.
January 28: Camarhynchus heliobates, the rarest of Darwin’s finches, is critically endangered.
January 27: Biomphalaria glabrata, intermediate host to the parasite Schistosoma mansoni that causes schistosomiasis..
January 26: Laetoli footprints and experimental approximation.
January 25: Biomass as seen by children.
January 24: Archaeological excavations in the Dhofar mountains in Oman.
January 23: Zebrafish embryos: wildtype on top, albino mutant below.
January 22: A tumor in the making.
January 21: How to measure odors?.
January 20: A sexually mature abalone Haliotis asinina.
January 19: Sari filtering in Matlab.
January 18: A PDF copy of en:Research Works Act for display during the SOPA blackout.
January 17: Toxoplasma gondii.
January 16: Skeletal reconstruction of Spinophorosaurus nigerensis..
January 15: A young male chimp.
January 14: Four different species of Volvocales algae.
January 13: A neuron grown in silico.
January 12: Paedophryne amauensis, the smallest known vertebrate.
January 11: Field work at Mt. Ruapehu in New Zealand.
January 10: An optical illusion. Stare at the figure for 10s and then switch gaze to the (F).
9 January: A lab notebook containing the record of research described in a scientific paper.
8 January: Koi pla - a traditional Thai dish.
7 January: A farm with traditional and hybrid varieties of Sorghum.
6 January: An adult female fly, Apocephalus borealis..
5 January: The sound of a black smoker.
4 January: The effect of a mutation in Auxin signaling on the growth of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
3 January: A paper whose images are heavily used on Wikimedia projects.
2 January: A human liver fluke.
1 January: Afloat in kelp forests - the sea otter

2011

31 December: Salamanders are a model system for the study of limb regeneration.
30 December: Anatomy of the human ear – editable version.
29 December: Bradypodion taeniabronchum on the watch.
28 December: A lissencephalic human brain.
27 December: Tyrannosaurus with skin infection.
26 December: Leaf mines by Phyllocnistis hyperpersea larvae.
25 December: Chlorobalius leucoviridis mimicking the song of its prey.
24 December: The production and diffusion of nitric oxide (NO) (white) in the cytoplasm (green) of clusters of conifer cells one hour after mechanical agitation.
23 December: A male Oligoxystre diamantinensis.
22 December: Mimicry in Heliconius butterflies.
21 December: A sow with suckling pigs.
20 December: The chromosomes of a women.
19 Dec 2011: Rice terraces in the Philippines.
18 December: Baltimartyria rasnitsyni.
17 December: Pomacea canaliculata eggs.
16 December: Bee waggle dance.
15 December: Shimmering bees drive hornet away.
14 December: Northwest Crown Fire Experiments in Canada.
13 December: HIV on macrophage.
12 December: The sea slug Pleurobranchaea meckelii.
11 December: A bat in flight.
10 December: Samples in a seedbank.
9 December: Chalcolithic leather shoe from the Areni-1 cave.
8 December: Soft tissue reconstruction of the Longdan tiger.
7 December: Qualia of sound.
6 December: Burying behaviour of an adult sandfish (Scincus scincus).
5 December: Genetic subdivision in the giraffe based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.
4 December: Apertural view of the snail Rapana venosa.
3 December: Genome of Arthrobacter arilaitensis.
2 December: A Giant Haasts eagle attacking a New Zealand moa.
1 December: Actenoides concretus.

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