20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
The Snake
Photomicrograph of a thin section of dinosaur bone collected in Utah, USA. The image shows a highly porous structure, with pores filled with late chalcedony, and the fossil remnants of the bone tissue, where black dots used to host a single bone cell. The structure of the bone is intriguing and scary: can you see the snake in the centre of the image? Width of view 2,7 mm.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 08.2021 |
Date Uploaded: | 11.2022 |
Photo Location: | Microscope Laboratory, Padua, Italy (rock comes from Utah, US), Italy |
Camera: | NIKON D5500 |
Copyright: | © Bernardo Cesare |