CNN —A photo of a bright orange fungus growing on deadwood, with its striking color resplendent against the darkness, has been crowned winner of this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition.
The image competition showcases the “intersection between art and science,” organizers said, in all its weird and wonderful forms.
An image depicting an embryonic dinosaur developing within an egg between 72 million and 66 million years ago won the Paleoecology category.
It was submitted by Jordan Mallon from the Candian Museum of Nature and created by Wenyu Ren from Beijing, China.
A selection of the winning and runner-up images can be viewed in the gallery above.
Persons:
Cornelia Sattler, palaeontologists, Roberto García, João Araújo, Victor Huertas, Jordan Mallon, Wenyu Ren
Organizations:
CNN, BMC, Macquarie University, University of Lund, New, Botanical Garden, James Cook University, Australia, Coral, Candian Museum of Nature
Locations:
deadwood, Australia, Roa, Sweden, Guinea, Beijing, China