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Pictured here is a deceased chameleon. A zoologist prepped the chameleon by dipping it in chemicals that rendered its skin and muscles transparent, and then stained its bones and joints with dyes. Because it was a 3-D subject, the photographer focused her digital camera on different planes of the chameleon's body and then stitched 32 images together to create a single, crisp picture.
The image won the People's Choice in the photography category of the 2015 Visualization Challenge, now called The Vizzies, a long-running, annual competition co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Popular Science.Image credit: Elizabeth Marchiondo and Andrew Gillis
