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Under The Microscope: Skate Heads | Mouse Tails

A freckled, or rosette skate (Leucoraja garmani). Sourced by NOAA.

Cambridge University has launched a new video series to mark research into the natural and man-made worlds at the microscopic scale. The series provides incredible and revealing closeups of organs that, to the naked eye may, seem bland but which, in reality, are sophisticated structures…

The ninth video in the series focuses on the head of a skate embryo. This is a flat, ray-like fish, related to sharks, whose skeleton is made of cartilage and whose skin is covered in a type of fish scale called denticles…

The tenth video shows the outer layer of the skin of a mouse tail, revealing how complex and intricate an organ skin is…

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