16 July 2009

All creatures great and small...




South African grasshoppers, fetuses, and the hoopoe via Moqo-moqo.

6 comments:

  1. Bird: a hoopoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe

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  2. Thank you pom! I knew someone would know the answer. Text fixed.

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  3. i love those fetus pictures, I'm reading about how they were taken. They are so well done I was a bit scared of what the answer would be at first. Apparently they are Ua combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics and tiny cameras.

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  4. I'm sorry, but it was the grasshopper picture that just wowed me. Totally awesome.

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  5. wonderful photos, the fetal elephant amazed me!
    On an outside note, where was the photo of the waterfall in your title logo taken? I want to go there!

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  6. @ indy - I wrote a report on the waterfall here:

    http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2008/11/about-that-waterfall-in-header.html

    I want to go there too...

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