Friday (-1) Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) X-Ray Shells

Each of these gastropods are from the deep sea in the North Atlantic near 1500m. Each is is a few mm in height.

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3 Replies to “Friday (-1) Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) X-Ray Shells”

  1. Wow craig, these are really cool! So ghostly and artistic. Can’t be nature when it comes to beauty and symmetry.

    Who did these x-rays?

  2. I did the x-rays in the Zoology Dept. at Harvard. It was part of the project to characterize the diversity of deep-sea gastropods. See McClain et al. 2004 and McClain 2005 both in Evolution

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