Human femoral bone, AFM

Labour and birth

A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel

Medieval human mandible (lower jaw bone)

Beetle leg tip, microphotograph

Osteocyte in cortical bone, SEM

X-ray of a knee joint printed on coated aluminium, artwork

Complete skeleton of a flamingo (Phoenicopteridae). Flamingos are tall wading birds with long, delicate legs and downturned bills. They also have long, curved necks which are made up of multiple vertebrae as seen here. The flamingo is 62 cm from ground to shoulder.

A diatom frustule

Reconstructed CT scan of elephant foot

Bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) skeleton

Skeleton (side view), adult goat

3D reconstructed elephant hind limbs

Complete skeleton of a Harris' hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)

Diatom frustule, SEM

Collagen network

Cortical bone mapping of hip from computed tomography

3D reconstruction of chinchilla, composite

Complete skeleton of a marabou stork

Calvarial (skull) osteocytes, murine, THG and SHG

Lungs and collapsed trachea, canine

Oleander (Nerium oleander) leaf, LM

Radiolaria

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