{"id":21369,"date":"2012-09-17T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/?page_id=21369"},"modified":"2012-09-17T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:54:08","slug":"best-science-photos-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.floracantabrica.com\/?page_id=21369","title":{"rendered":"Best science photos of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floracantabrica.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D21369&amp;count=none&amp;lang=es&amp;via=lorencincoreses&amp;related=Mujerverdosa&amp;text=Best science photos of 2012 - Flora Cant\u00e1brica\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/p><p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Las mejores fotos de ciencia del a\u00f1o 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>Best science photos of 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Australian Geographic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>Etnopaisaje.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image002\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image00212.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"914\" height=\"585\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>First Documentation of a Humpback Whale Mating<\/strong> &#8212; This is the first time humpback whale (<em>Megaptera novaeangliae<\/em>)  mating has ever been documented. For several hours a pod of male  humpbacks competed in a battle of strength and endurance known as a heat  run. Jason says he witnessed a bull rub his rostrum (nose) against the  cow\u2019s tail flukes in a tender gesture. Finally the successful male mated  with the female stroking the cow\u2019s flanks with his pectoral fins and  holding her to him during copulation<strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Primera documentaci\u00f3n de un apareamiento de ballena jorobada<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image002\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image00219.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"926\" height=\"802\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Fly in Amber<\/strong> &#8212; This dolichopodid fly is preserved in Baltic amber (some 40 million  years old), the world\u2019s most famous amber deposit. Amber is fossilised  tree resin, and the often exquisite preservation of included specimens  is as if they were recently caught. Like most males in the family  Dolichopodidae, this one has complex genitalia at the end of its  abdomen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Mosca en \u00e1mbar<\/strong><strong> &#8211; Esta mosca dolichopodid se conserva en el \u00e1mbar del B\u00e1ltico (unos 40  millones de a\u00f1os), el yacimiento de \u00e1mbar del mundo m\u00e1s famoso<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image002\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image00220.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"922\" height=\"653\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Mantis Shrimp<\/strong> &#8212; The peacock mantis shrimp (<em>Odontodactylus scyllarus<\/em>), has one of the most complex vision systems in the marine world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Mantis Shrimp<\/strong><strong> &#8211; El pavo real camar\u00f3n mantis ( <em>Odontodactylus Scyllarus<\/em> ), tiene uno de los sistemas de visi\u00f3n m\u00e1s complejas del mundo marino<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image002\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image00221.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"952\" height=\"1210\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Another Day in the Life of Arabidopsis<\/strong> &#8212; The image shows a small, 6-day-old seedling of <em>Arabidopsis thaliana<\/em> under a scanning electron microscope and captures the essence of seed  germination, the tiny and delicate beginnings of a plant. The image has  been artificially coloured to resemble the natural colours of the living  seedling and shows the sprouting root (yellow), seed leaves and  embryonic stem (green), and remnants of the seed (brown). Arabidopsis  seeds are germinated thousands of times a day across the world to study  all aspects of plant growth and development, including processes that  regulate germination \u2013 a hot area of research in plant biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Otro d\u00eda en la vida de Arabidopsis<\/strong><strong> &#8211; La imagen muestra una plantula de 6 d\u00edas de edad, de <em>Arabidopsis thaliana<\/em> con un microscopio electr\u00f3nico de barrido y captura la\u00a0 germinaci\u00f3n de las semillas<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image002\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image00222.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"952\" height=\"1451\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Red-throat Travels<\/strong> &#8212; The photograph captures the release of a red-throat emperor (<em>Lethrinus miniatus<\/em>)  after surgery to implant an acoustic tag (the surgery scar and external  tag can be seen in the image) at Heron Island within the Great Barrier  Reef. The research project aims to describe movement patterns of <em>L. miniatus<\/em> in the Heron Island region in relation to the efficacy of marine protected areas and environmental changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Red de garganta Travels<\/strong><strong> &#8211; La fotograf\u00eda captura el lanzamiento de un emperador de garganta roja ( <em>Lethrinus miniatus<\/em> ) despu\u00e9s \u00a0que la cirug\u00eda le \u00a0implantara una etiqueta ac\u00fastica (la  cicatriz de la cirug\u00eda y la variable externa se puede ver en la imagen) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image002\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/image00223.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"922\" height=\"674\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<span style=\"font-size: large;\">ord Howe Island Stick Insect Hatching at Melbourne Zoo<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8212; This photograph shows a critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect (<em>Dryococelus australis<\/em>)  emerging from its egg after 6 months of incubation. This process had  never before been photographed, and the photographer, Rohan Cleave,  waited patiently for many weeks to capture this image. The Lord Howe  Island stick insect is part of the endangered species breeding program  at Zoos Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8211; Esta fotograf\u00eda muestra un grave peligro de extinci\u00f3n Lord Howe Island insecto palo ( <em>Dryococelus australis<\/em> ) que sale de su huevo despu\u00e9s de 6 meses de incubaci\u00f3n. Este proceso nunca antes hab\u00eda sido fotografiado <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Las mejores fotos de ciencia del a\u00f1o 2012 .. &#8230;&#8230;. . Best science photos of 2012 &#8230;.. &#8230;&#8230;.. &#8230;&#8230;.. Australian Geographic &#8230;.. &#8230; Etnopaisaje.com &#8230;. &#8230;&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;.. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. First Documentation of a Humpback Whale Mating &#8212; This is the first time humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) mating has ever been documented. 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