Sunday, August 29, 2010

BrainBank: Microscopes Provide Endless Horror Edition

Look at this harmless butterfly, sitting there prettily atop those flowers just chilling out. Surely this isn't actually a font of visceral horror.

Well, it might not be, but it definitely came from one. Scientists used a microscope to take super-magnified pictures of a variety of insect eggs, then colored the in post-processing. The butterfly egg is one of the most disturbing to view, though it's kind of fascinating in an alien way.


Apparently SpongeBob SquarePants had it right, butterflies are clearly monsters bent on the destruction of us all.

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