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  • Mandible of Common Shrew (Sorex araneus) retrieved from soil under a Barn Owl (Tyto alba) roost. The red tooth enamel contains iron, which adds strength. The iron is concentrated in regions of the tooth that come under the most stress, specifically the chewing and grinding surfaces.
    AH_Mandible of Common Shrew (Sorex a...jpg
  • Olivine Gabbro petrographic thin section viewed under cross polarised light. Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Focus stacked image.
    AH_Olivine Gabbro Loch Coruisk Isle ...jpg
  • Decaying Sessile Oak leaf {Quercus petraea} from the woodland floor, backlit with flash to reveal leaf veins. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. December.
    AH_Decaying Sessile Oak leaf Quercus...jpg
  • Egg sac of a Pirate Spider (Ero sp.) found hanging from the wall of a disused lead mine. Pirate spiders lead a nomadic life, hunting other spiders in their own webs. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. December.
    AH_Egg sac Pirate Spider Ero_1688.jpg
  • Egg sac of a Pirate Spider {Ero sp.} found hanging underneath a piece of limestone. Pirate spiders lead a nomadic life, hunting other spiders in their own webs. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. June.
    AH_Egg sac Pirate Spider Ero_0028.jpg
  • Egg sac of a Pirate Spider {Ero sp.}. Pirate spiders lead a nomadic life, hunting other spiders in their own webs. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. April.
    AH_Egg sac Pirate Spider Ero_2446.jpg
  • A cleaved sample of a crustose lichen growing on limestone. The image has been hand-coloured to reveal the different structures in the image, which was originally a grayscale scanning electron micrograph. The grey areas are limestone, the orange are fungal threads and the green shows algal cells. The fungal threads anchor the algae in place, close to the surface of the lichen to optimise their position for photosynthesis. Lichens are best thought of as miniature ecosystems, the overall structure and scaffolding produced by multiple fungal species and the interior housing algae or cyanobacteria, yeasts and other microorganisms in a mutualistic arrangement. Youlgrave, Derbyshire. February. False-coloured scanning electron micrograph, produced at the University of Derby. 0.14mm across in real life, x715 magnification when printed at 10cm across.
    AH_Lichen Cross Section - SEM_2.jpg
  • Aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica_72...jpg
  • Waterall cascading over a naturally formed tufa dam. The tufa results from calcium carbonate deposits gradually accumulating on mosses and water plants, creating a solid limestone structure over time. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.
    AH_Tufa Dam Waterfall Plitvice Lakes...jpg
  • Nasus of a soldier Nasute Termite (Nasutitermitinae). The distinctively-shaped heads of the soldiers terminate with a nozzle at the end of a nose-like structure, know as the nasus. A sticky secretion, produced in the frontal gland that occupies much of the bulbous head, is squirted through this tiny pore, immobilising raiding ants. Amazonian Ecuador. Scanning electron micrograph. Image is 0.24mm across in real life.
    AH_Nasus soldier Nasute Termite Nasu...jpg
  • Looking upwards to the rainforest canopy through the aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica_72...jpg
  • Aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May. Digitally stitched panoramic image.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica Pa...jpg
  • Waterall cascading over a naturally formed tufa dam. The tufa results from calcium carbonate deposits gradually accumulating on mosses and water plants, creating a solid limestone structure over time. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.
    AH_Tufa Dam Waterfall Plitvice Lakes...jpg
  • Waterall cascading over a naturally formed tufa dam. The tufa results from calcium carbonate deposits gradually accumulating on mosses and water plants, creating a solid limestone structure over time. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.
    AH_Tufa Dam Waterfall Plitvice Lakes...jpg
  • Waterall cascading over a naturally formed tufa dam. The tufa results from calcium carbonate deposits gradually accumulating on mosses and water plants, creating a solid limestone structure over time. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.
    AH_Tufa Dam Waterfall Plitvice Lakes...jpg
  • Porcelain fungus {Oudemansiella mucida} underside showing gill structure. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.
    AH_Porcelain fungus Oudemansiella mu...jpg
  • Lyginopteris oldhamia (orignally Lyginodendron oldhamia), a Carboniferous seed fern preservd in a coal ball. Cellular structure is still clearly visiable in this fossil dating back to the Carboniferous 359-299 million years ago. Imaged from an antique microscope slide, mounted by Norman. Focus stacked image.
    AH_Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopte...jpg
  • Aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica_75...jpg
  • Looking upwards to the rainforest canopy through the aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May. Photographed with a circular fisheye lens.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica_72...jpg
  • Aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May. Digitally stitched panoramic image.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica Pa...jpg
  • Waterall cascading over a naturally formed tufa dam. The tufa results from calcium carbonate deposits gradually accumulating on mosses and water plants, creating a solid limestone structure over time. Note the Polypodium vulgare, the Common Polypody Fern {Polypodium vulgare} that has colonised a tree branch. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.
    AH_Tufa Dam Waterfall Plitvice Lakes...jpg
  • Lyginopteris oldhamia (orignally Lyginodendron oldhamia), a Carboniferous seed fern preservd in a coal ball. Cellular structure is still clearly visiable in this fossil dating back to the Carboniferous 359-299 million years ago. Imaged from an antique microscope slide, mounted by Norman. Focus stacked image.
    AH_Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopte...jpg
  • Aerial roots of a huge Stangler Fig {Ficus sp.}. The seeds of the strangler fig germinate high up in the branches of the host tree. Over time aerial roots decend to the forest floor and wrap tightly around the host tree's trunk. Eventually the host tree is outcompeted and dies. Once the host tree rots away, the strangler fig remains standing as a cage-like structure, as can be seen here. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, May.
    AH_Strangler Fig Ficus Costa Rica_75...jpg
  • Fruiting bodies of lichen {Cladonia diversa} showing red apothecia (spore-producing structures). Cairngorms National Park, Grampian Mountains, Scotland, UK, February.
    AH_Lichen_Cladonia diversa_Cairngorm...jpg
  • Dermal denticles on a Dogfish shark {Scyliorhinus sp}. These tooth-like structures on the skin of sharks and rays afford protection from predators and ectoparasites. They are also speculated to reduce drag whilst swimming. False coloured scanning electron micrograph. Dead specimen.
    AH_Dogfish skin_.jpg
  • Sensory structures on underside of scorpion {Scorpiones} known as Pectines, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.
    AH_MG_9775.jpg
  • A chalk coccosphere micro-fossil (12μm diameter), made up from individual coccoliths plates of calcite crystals. Coccospheres are the remaining skeletons of Coccolithophores, microscopic marine algal organisms that are highly abundant in oceans. The are an important compomnent of phytoplankton. The White Cliffs of Dover and chalk deposits in general contain great numbers of these mineralised structures. Chalk sample from the 'White Cliffs of Dover', England. Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation, formed between 93.9 and 86.3 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM). Image is x4500 magnification when printed 10cm across.
    AH_Coccolithophore in Chalk_2.jpg
  • Detail of skin of dead Lesser Spotted Dogfish / Smallspotted Catshark {Scyliorhinus canicula} washed up on strand line following storms. Close inspection reveals the dermal denticles that cover the skin of sharks and rays, giving them a rough, abrasive texture. These tooth-like structures afford protection from predators and ectoparasites. They are also speculated to reduce drag whilst swimming.  Anglesey, Wales, UK. December.
    AH_Lesser Spotted Dogfish Small spot...jpg
  • Detail of skin of dead Lesser Spotted Dogfish / Smallspotted Catshark {Scyliorhinus canicula} washed up on strand line following storms. Close inspection reveals the dermal denticles that cover the skin of sharks and rays, giving them a rough, abrasive texture. These tooth-like structures afford protection from predators and ectoparasites. They are also speculated to reduce drag whilst swimming.  Anglesey, Wales, UK. December.
    AH_Lesser Spotted Dogfish Small spot...jpg
  • Dermal denticles on a Dogfish shark {Scyliorhinus sp}. These tooth-like structures on the skin of sharks and rays afford protection from predators and ectoparasites. They are also speculated to reduce drag whilst swimming. False-colour scanning electron micrograph (SEM) x56 magnification when image printed 10cm across.
    AH_Dogfish Shark Skin SEM Close Up D...jpg
  • Fungal mycelium growing in decaying wood. For much of their lives, fungi can be hidden from view, only revealing themselves when they produce fruiting bodies to release spores. Digging down into damp woodland leaf litter or gently peeling back the bark on section of decaying log will quickly reveal a mass of fine thread-like structures, the fungal mycelium. Constructed from thousands of tiny tubes known as hyphae, the mycelium enables the fungus to absorb nutrients from the environment.  Mycelium is central to nutrient recycling and itself is vital food source for a huge number of invertebrates. Derbyshire, UK. August.
    AH_Fungal Mycelium Hyphae_5341.jpg
  • Straw or Tubular Stalactites are very deilcate, hollow structures. They form when calcium carbonate or calcium sulfate dissolved in the water comes out of solution and is deposited in a ring around the outside of each successive drop as it hangs from the end of the stalactite. This example was photographed in a karstic cave in Slovenia.
    AH_Straw Tubular Stalactite Cave Slo...jpg
  • Straw or Tubular Stalactites are very deilcate, hollow structures. They form when calcium carbonate or calcium sulfate dissolved in the water comes out of solution and is deposited in a ring around the outside of each successive drop as it hangs from the end of the stalactite. This example was photographed in a karstic cave in Slovenia.
    AH_Straw Tubular Stalactite Cave Slo...jpg
  • Straw or Tubular Stalactites are very deilcate, hollow structures. They form when calcium carbonate or calcium sulfate dissolved in the water comes out of solution and is deposited in a ring around the outside of each successive drop as it hangs from the end of the stalactite. Postojna Cave, Slovenia.
    AH_Straw Tubular Stalactite Cave Slo...jpg
  • Dermal denticles on a Dogfish shark (Scyliorhinus sp). These tooth-like structures on the skin of sharks and rays afford protection from predators and ectoparasites. They are also speculated to reduce drag whilst swimming. False coloured scanning electron micrograph. Dead specimen.
    AH_Dogfish denticle_.jpg