Nikon just announced the winners of their annual “Small World in Motion” photo contest and the results are cool, creepy, cute, and everything else in between.
Here are the 2015 winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition:
Nikon's annual contest is all about capturing microscopic things in gorgeous and moving detail. There were submissions from all over the world, and winners were selected by a panel of scientists and photographers.
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First place went to this slow-motion ciliate-on-ciliate attack and the tasty feast that followed:
Ciliates are a broad group of single-cells organisms with hair-like features. The photographer, Wim van Egmond, scooped these guys out of a friend's backyard pond and set up his camera when he saw one of the two species get hungry.
Mr. Wim van Egmond / Micropolitan Museum
Second place went to this horrifically close-up view of a termite's guts:
According to photographer Danielle Parsons, all those little things roiling around in the gut are hundreds of species of single-celled organisms that help the termite break down the wood it eats.
Danielle Parsons / Wonder Science TV
Third place went to this disturbing video of a parasite larva emerging from its moth-host to build a cocoon:
Gonzalo Avila made this incredible time-lapse video of a moth parasite breaking out of its host and spinning its cocoon. In real time, this gnarly process takes several hours, Avila said in a press release.
Gonzalo Avila / University of Auckland
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