8 More Amazing Images of Living Things from the 2013 BioScapes Competition [Slide Show]

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The January issue of Scientific American features some fantastic photos from the 2013 Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition, which welcomes professional photographers and amateurs alike as well as working scientists. Of course, we had room for only so many pictures in the magazine. Here, we present eight additional images from the competition that really caught our eyes.

>> View a slide show of additional BioScapes images

Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for Scientific American. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and Outside.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 310 Issue 1This article was published with the title “8 More Amazing Images of Living Things from the 2013 BioScapes Competition [Slide Show]” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 310 No. 1 ()
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