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Fractals, Parasites and 3-D Reconstructions: 12 Startling Science Images.

This just-hatched bearded pygmy chameleon, Rieppeleon brevicaudatus, may someday outsize the matchstick it's perched on—but just barely. Adults grow to a scant five centimeters in length.

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At 0.6 millimeter across, Typhlodromus pyri is a fierce predatory mite that hunts other kinds of mites. One female T. pyri can kill hundreds of red spider mites during her lifetime. Viktor Sýkora took the photograph using a scanning electron microscope, then colorized the image in Adobe Photoshop.