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Stunning video shows the anatomy of a water beetle

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This cool video, showing the anatomy of a small aquatic beetle called Dryops from the inside, won the Best Film of the Year Award at the SkyScan Micro CT Meeting in Brussels.

These images were created via microtomography, which uses x-rays to generate micron-resolution cross-section images of a 3D object to recreate a virtual model of that item, without destroying the original model.

More videos from Javier Alba Tercedor at the University of Granada can be seen at his Youtube page.

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