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The colors of painted woolly bats camouflage them as they roost in the dead tip of a banana leaf.

Painted woolly bats are known for their bright orange-and-black coloring, hues that help them blend well with leaves in their surroundings—but also pique buyers’ interest.

A ciliate, a type of single-celled microbe, swims next to Sphagnum moss, amplified under a microscope. A ciliate in the genus Halteria can subsist and thrive solely on a diet of viruses, something never previously shown before.

A human neuron consists of a cellular body, a long axon and spidery dendrites that contain contact points—synapses—that allow the neurons to communicate with each other.

This color enhanced hysterosalpingogram shows a female reproductive system, with fallopian tubes and a healthy uterus.

As his telescopes improved, he refined his sketches and released his lunar map in 1612 or 1613.

British scientist Thomas Harriot sketched the first known drawing of the Moon from observation with a telescope on July 26, 1609.

This view shows the cross-section an asteroid impact, similar to the event about 66 million years ago that led to the extinction of three quarters of all species on Earth. Another impact crater may have been discovered on the coast of West Africa, adding a new twist to the extinction.

"Calico Jack" John Rackham is shown in a woodcut from a 1725 edition of A General History of the Pyrates.

This electron microscope image depicts monkeypox virus particles collected from a human skin sample from the 2003 outbreak. On the left are mature, oval-shaped virus particles; on the right are crescent and spherical immature viruses.