Awesome Photos

Where can you look at photos of fossilized giant bird-poop, nano-dreadlocks, and animals who look like plants? In the NYT's science slide-shows! The photographic quality is beautiful, not to mention the science behind them. Here, take a look:

These are "Sea Squirts," who actually start of looking a lot like tadpoles. At one point in their development they grip onto the ocean floor and tranform into these tubular guys. I must say they look somewhat like alien-tubas.
Nanodreadlocks! Now even teeny tiny college students can "find an identity." Harvard scientists, notorious followers of Rastafarian culture, grew these nanobristles into hellical formations. I kid, but this is really neat stuff. Pictured are the nanofibers (yellow) wrapped around a very tiny polystyrene sphere (blue).

And, as promised, fossilized bird dookie. This actually is the…ahem… property of the giant moa, an extinct bird of massive porportions. Here he is on a post-stamp:

Then…
Now!