20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Dinosaur Bone
Photomicrograph of a thin section of dinosaur bone collected in Utah, USA. The image shows a highly porous structure, with pores filled with late chalcedony, and the fossil remnants of the bone tissue, where black dots used to host a single bone cell. Width of view 2,7 mm
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 12.2021 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2022 |
| Photo Location: | Microscope Laboratory, Padua, Italy (fossil comes from Utah, USA), Italy |
| Camera: | NIKON D5500 |
| Copyright: | © Bernardo Cesare |