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A close-up view of anaerobic gut fungi under the microscope. Armed with powerful plant-degrading enzymes and a dense network of hyphae, these specialized microbes break down tough lignocellulosic plant matter in the absence of oxygen.
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Microbes are responsible for much of carbon sequestration in the ocean
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Life Science Databases, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan
The corpus callosum, in red, connects the two hemispheres of the brain together.
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Teniswood, George Francis, "Polycystic kidney," Barts Health NHS Trust Archives, c1880-1893 CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Watercolor drawing showing two views of a polycystic kidney. One shows the external surface of the kidney, the other when the organ is bisected. Drawing given to the Museum by Dr. Draper Mackinder, MD, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
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Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBC-LTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures from the sea floor
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Jeff Liang
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Dead Men Tell Tales, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
Orbital lesions (cribra orbitalia) in a young child from the medieval site of Helgeandsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
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