Bloody pigeon (Photo: Wellcome Images/Scott Echols)
The Wellcome Trust presents an annual award for scientific imagery, and two of this year’s winners (above and below) caught my eye for the new ways in which they reveal the natural world. Think of the one above as new insight into the cardiovascular system of living (and extinct) dinosaurs. Or just a bloody pigeon.
Here’s how The Guardian‘s Nicola Davis describes it:
Open-beaked against a jet-black background, the image of a bird leaps forth, a frenzy of red-and-white squirming lines hinting at its form. It looks like a still from a Hitchcockian nightmare. “It looks so cross, sort of squawking at you,” says Catherine Draycott, head of Wellcome Images.
In fact, the eerie shot is the product of
