Rarely Seen Images Of Things We've Always Wondered About

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So The Mystery Is Deeper Than We Thought!
Ancient Polynesians carved the mysterious Easter Island Heads between A.D 1100 and 1500. Although their traditional name is 'moai', people know them as those incredible giant heads. When it was discovered that giant heads have bodies as well, it shocked a lot of people.




An Intact Human Nervous System
Two medical students in Kirksville, Missouri, were given a unique challenge and they had the 'nerve' to complete it. The challenge was to dissect the nervous system of a cadaver (corpse) starting from the brain downward but making sure they leave the entire system in one piece. It took over 1,500 hours to complete the process. This extraordinary display is located at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University (ATSU) in Kirksville.




No Need For A CT Scan Or MRI
You can see every organ in the glass frog. Although glass frogs are primarily lime green, the abdominal skin of some members of this family is transparent. Scientists are not really sure about the reason behind their see-through skin, but they think that it is meant to resemble eggs and confuse predators. You can find reticulated glass frogs in the rainforest of Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador




An Albino Raccoon
This cute albino raccoon looks like a doggo or piglet with lots of hair. Did you know that one raccoon named Rebecca lived in The White House? She was kept as a pet by US President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge. We all know raccoons for their bandit black and white look, but this cutie is a rare one. As albino raccoons lack camouflage, they find it difficult to hide from predators and have a shorter lifespan.




Not A Head Scratcher
Don't be fooled by this picture that looks like a head-scratcher or some alien. It is a processed image of an actual virus. Its level of creepiness does not disappoint. It comes from the family of bacteriophages, or phages for short. Frederick Twort discovered them in 1915 and Félix d’Herelle in 1917. At that time, scientists didn't know how phages worked as they were used to treat cholera. It was in 1940 when scientists used an electron microscope to understand how phages work. This virus infects bacteria and cannot reproduce or survive without it.


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[eppur_se_muova]

1. So now I know it was Frederick Twort !

The Aldrich Chemical catalog has a listing for 'Twort stain', which always made me snicker.

https://microbiologysociety.org/publication/past-issues/world-war-i/article/frederick-william-twort-not-just-bacteriophage.html

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2. Is that virus laughing at us?

[Duppers]

3. These are AMAZING!

Especially the nervous system.