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Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) micrographs

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22/11/18

Stunning examples of photographs taken with the Museum's scanning electron microscope (SEM). All photos by Sue Lindsay.

Spiders

Sharks

Fotoware Image

Crystal in cat urine

Crystal in cat urine

Cat

Ctenocephalides felis

Cat

Cat

Dingo

Cat

Coral sand

Coral sand

Coral sand

Coral sand

Coral sand

Coral sand

Coral sand makeup

Coral sand

Coral sand

Coral sand

Ant

Bull Ant

Ant

Ant

Ant

Ant

Ant

Green Ant

Ant

Ant

Ant

Sharks

Ray

Sharks

Sharks

Brier Shark, Deania calcea

Sharks

Sharks

Sharks

Rhincodon typus

Spider

Scales of a Thresher Shark, <i>Alopias vulpinus</i>

Scales of a Tiger Shark, Galeocerdo cuvier

Scales of a White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias

Spiders

Spider

Spider

Spider

Spider

Spider

Onychophoran

Onychophoran

Marine Worm

Onychophoran

Onychophoran

Bloodworm, Marphysa sp - SEM

Onychophoran

Mouth parts of a beetle

Mouth hooks of a maggot

Hairy maggot

Spinnerets with different types of spigots

Cribellate web-builders

Funnel-web and Trapdoor hair spigots

Spigots on cribellum

Cribellum

Borboroides spp

Peludo's 'hairy' body

Scuttle Fly SEM

Sem image of the scale of a Florida Gar

Ianiropsis species 758

Scales of a Thorny Tinselfish, <i>Grammicolepis brachiusculus</i>

Rove Beetle

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